| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Islam in Black America: Identity, Liberation, and Difference in African-American Islamic Thought. By Edward E. Curtis IV. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. xii, 174 pp. Cloth, $54.50, ISBN 0-7914-5369-3. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-7914-5370-7.)

Most early works on African American Islam, even C. Eric Lincoln's The Black Muslims in America (1961) and E. U. Essien-Udom's Black Nationalism (1962), generally dismiss black Muslims as either quasi-religious racial separatists or heretical Muslim cultists. Recent scholarship has sought to correct that prevalent tendency by evaluating African American Islam on its own terms. Toward this end, Edward E. Curtis IV has crafted an impressive slender volume that serves as both a history of religion and a history of ideas that squarely situates Islam within the African American experience. Although he is engaged in an exhaustive investigation of African American Islam in the twentieth century, his book also offers great insights into the evolution of such vital concerns within modern African American historiography as the Great Migration, New Negro militancy, pan-Africanism, black nationalism, and the civil rights and Black Power movements.

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