Richard Brent Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Brent Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Brent |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Soundtrack to a Movement
This book explores the historical connections between African American Islam, jazz, and black internationalism from the 1940s to the 1970s. It shows that the social justice values that Islam and jazz shared were key to the growth of black Islamic communities in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from the Cold War and continuing up to the civil rights and Black Power movements in the 1960s
Ayuba Sulieman Diallo and Muslim Visual Culture in the Black Atlantic World
Jazz, The Second Line, and African American Religious Internationalism in New Orleans
This article explores the history and contemporary significance of African American religious internationalism in New Orleans through the popular religious traditions, identities, and performance forms celebrated in the second lines of the city's jazz street parades. The second line is the group of dancers who follow the first procession church and club members, brass bands and Black Indians. The second line theme allows me to investigate how Afr…
The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X
Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned essays by prominent scholars from a range of disciplin…
Constructing Masculinity
The black muslims in america was a groundbreaking work—the first monograph that presented a detailed sociological study of a twentieth-century African American Muslim community. C. Eric Lincoln demonstrated a profound understanding of the dynamic changes in black American identity that developed rom the convergence of the civil rights movement, Black nationalism, and the independence of African nations from colonialism after World War II; simulta…
Constructing Masculinity
Using oral history interviews conducted at The University of Iowa after September 11, 2001, Black autobiographies, and recent social-scientific and cultural studies of African-American masculinity, this article evaluates from contemporary and historical perspectives, identity formation among Sunni Muslim converts and second generation Muslims involved in hip hop culture. The article also discusses visual representations in television and cinema t…
Robert Dannin and Jolie Stahl, Black Pilgrimage to Islam
Servants of Allah
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, ground-breaking volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale. She details how, even while enslaved, many Muslims managed to follow…
Islam in the African-American Experience
Journal Article Islam in the African-American Experience. By Richard Brent Turner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. x, 300 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33238-9 and African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. By Allan D. Austin. New York: Routledge, 1997. xiv, 194 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-415-91269-5 Get access Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Yvette Alex-Assensoh Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana…
An Original Man
Islam in the African-American experience
Malcolm X and, more recently, Louis Farrakhan are two of the more visible signs of Islam's influence in the lives and culture of African Americans. Yet, as Richard Brent Turner shows, the involvement of black American with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. Part I of the book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa, and antebellum America. Part II tells the story of the 'Prophets of the …
Edward Wilmot Blyden and Panafricanism
Edward Wilmot Blyden and Panafricanism
Islam in the African-American Experience
Journal Article Islam in the African-American Experience. By Richard Brent Turner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. x, 300 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33238-9 and African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. By Allan D. Austin. New York: Routledge, 1997. xiv, 194 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-415-91269-5 Get access Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Yvette Alex-Assensoh Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana…
Islam in the African-American experience
Malcolm X and, more recently, Louis Farrakhan are two of the more visible signs of Islam's influence in the lives and culture of African Americans. Yet, as Richard Brent Turner shows, the involvement of black American with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of the African presence in North America. Part I of the book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa, and antebellum America. Part II tells the story of the 'Prophets of the …
Edward Wilmot Blyden and Panafricanism
An Original Man
Islam in the African-American Experience
Journal Article Islam in the African-American Experience. By Richard Brent Turner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. x, 300 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-253-33238-9 and African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles. By Allan D. Austin. New York: Routledge, 1997. xiv, 194 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-415-91269-5 Get access Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Yvette Alex-Assensoh Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana…
Servants of Allah
Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, ground-breaking volume, Islam flourished during slavery on a large scale. She details how, even while enslaved, many Muslims managed to follow…
Robert Dannin and Jolie Stahl, Black Pilgrimage to Islam
Constructing Masculinity
Using oral history interviews conducted at The University of Iowa after September 11, 2001, Black autobiographies, and recent social-scientific and cultural studies of African-American masculinity, this article evaluates from contemporary and historical perspectives, identity formation among Sunni Muslim converts and second generation Muslims involved in hip hop culture. The article also discusses visual representations in television and cinema t…
Constructing Masculinity
The black muslims in america was a groundbreaking work—the first monograph that presented a detailed sociological study of a twentieth-century African American Muslim community. C. Eric Lincoln demonstrated a profound understanding of the dynamic changes in black American identity that developed rom the convergence of the civil rights movement, Black nationalism, and the independence of African nations from colonialism after World War II; simulta…
The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X
Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy in a series of specially commissioned essays by prominent scholars from a range of disciplin…
Jazz, The Second Line, and African American Religious Internationalism in New Orleans
This article explores the history and contemporary significance of African American religious internationalism in New Orleans through the popular religious traditions, identities, and performance forms celebrated in the second lines of the city's jazz street parades. The second line is the group of dancers who follow the first procession church and club members, brass bands and Black Indians. The second line theme allows me to investigate how Afr…
Ayuba Sulieman Diallo and Muslim Visual Culture in the Black Atlantic World
Soundtrack to a Movement
This book explores the historical connections between African American Islam, jazz, and black internationalism from the 1940s to the 1970s. It shows that the social justice values that Islam and jazz shared were key to the growth of black Islamic communities in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from the Cold War and continuing up to the civil rights and Black Power movements in the 1960s
History (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Islam (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)