How do you think the fact that Popmaster Fabel marking certain songs as “an extension of the proper Islamic tradition” underscore how Muslim Cool and its ties to blackness are implicated in tensions over orthodoxy in the history and experience of Islam in the United States?
The umbrella term, “Black Islam”, is used by the author to describe a wide range of Muslim beliefs and practices among U.S. Black Americans such as Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam (NOI), and many more. Why do you think the wide breadth of this term might be controversial to some? How do you think the term will affect the black Muslim population in the U.S.?
How do we as a society or as an individual acknowledge or fail to acknowledge the systemic inequality that black Muslims in the United States had faced?
Why do you think the author implements other people’s accounts into her writing? How do you feel about being included in her conversations with other important figures in this narrative?
How do you think the author's background in anthropology affects the way she expresses her thoughts and displays her research in this chapter?
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