In and Out of This World
Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam
1st Edition
Published on 24. October 2022
264 pages
978-1-4780-2341-8 (ISBN)
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Stephen C. Finley offers a new look at the religious practices and discourses of the Nation of Islam, showing how the group and its leaders used multiple religious and esoteric symbols to locate black bodies as sites of religious meaning.
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In and Out of This World
Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam
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Stephen C. Finley is Inaugural Chair, Department of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University, and coeditor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress and Esotericism in African American Religious Experience.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Black Bodies In- and Out-of-Place: Rereading the Nation of Islam through a Theory of the Body 1
1. Elijah Muhammad, the Myth of Yakub, and the Critique of "Whitenized" Black Embodiment 15
2. Elijah Muhammad, Transcendent Blackness, and the Construction of Ideal Black Bodies 46
3. Malcolm X and the Politics of Resistance: Visible Bodies, Language, and the Implied Critique of Elijah Muhammad 74
4. Warith Deen Mohammed and the Nation of Islam: Race and Black Embodiment in "Islamic" Form 100
5. Mothership Connections: Louis Farrakhan as the Culmination of Muslim Ideals in the Nation of Islam 131
Conclusion. (Re)forming Black Embodiment, White Supremacy, and the Nation of Islam's Class(ist) Response 158
Wheels, Wombs, and Women: An Epilogue 174
The "Louis Farrakhan" That the Public Does Not Know, or Doesn't Want to Know?: An Afterword 189
Farrakhan's Swan Song? A Postscript 198
Notes 201
Bibliography 235
Index 245
Introduction. Black Bodies In- and Out-of-Place: Rereading the Nation of Islam through a Theory of the Body 1
1. Elijah Muhammad, the Myth of Yakub, and the Critique of "Whitenized" Black Embodiment 15
2. Elijah Muhammad, Transcendent Blackness, and the Construction of Ideal Black Bodies 46
3. Malcolm X and the Politics of Resistance: Visible Bodies, Language, and the Implied Critique of Elijah Muhammad 74
4. Warith Deen Mohammed and the Nation of Islam: Race and Black Embodiment in "Islamic" Form 100
5. Mothership Connections: Louis Farrakhan as the Culmination of Muslim Ideals in the Nation of Islam 131
Conclusion. (Re)forming Black Embodiment, White Supremacy, and the Nation of Islam's Class(ist) Response 158
Wheels, Wombs, and Women: An Epilogue 174
The "Louis Farrakhan" That the Public Does Not Know, or Doesn't Want to Know?: An Afterword 189
Farrakhan's Swan Song? A Postscript 198
Notes 201
Bibliography 235
Index 245
