“…the rise of Islam among Blackamericans was rooted in the agenda and sensibilities of “Black Religion” – essentially, a folk-oriented, holy protest against antiblack racism – the future was intimately tied to Blackamerican Muslims’ ability to access and deploy the intellectual legacy of the classical Sunni Tradition, both as a means of domesticating Black Religion [...]

Here’s another dose of reading material I will be covering over the next three to four months. A mix of academically required and personal. It all mixes together in the end some how.
[1] Luhmann, Niklas. A Socialogical Theory of Law. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. [2] White, Harrison C. White, Cynthia A. Canvases and [...]

The SSRC (Social Science Research Council), in conjunction with the Center for Study of Democracy, is going to be holding a panel discussion on the distinctions and similarities between religious and secular medias. Panelists will include Birgit Meyer (VU University Amsterdam), Charles Hirschkind (University of California, Berkeley) and Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina). In [...]

I had the chance to work with the University of Minnesota Press publishers on their new book, Bad For Democracy, by Dana D. Nelson. I contributed one image to the book. Nelson’s work is quite intriguing as she states,
“it is the office of the presidency itself that endangers the great American experiment.”
Look for it in [...]