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Black arts, Black Muslims : Islam in the Black freedom struggle /

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, prominent figures in the Black Arts Movement (BAM) converted to Islam and took new names. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Muhammad Touré, and Marvin X incorporated Islamic words and expressions, references to the Qur'an, and Arabic script, as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McLarney, Ellen Anne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2026.
Series:Black lives in the diaspora.
Subjects:
Black Arts movement.
Islam and art.
Islam et art.
Black Arts movement
Islam and art

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