Places in Political Time Voices from the

Places in Political Time approaches the black African Diaspora phenomenon from a new perspective, considering cultural myths, history, allegories, and other stories, which present the human condition from a black American perspective. The essays describe and evaluate tough questions on racism and uncomfortable truths about people within the Black Diaspora, exploring how people of color interact with themselves and dominate cultures.

Preface

vii

Introduction

1

(103)

1 The Rise, Decline, and Fall of H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)

8

(19)

2 Demystifying the Rise of Black Islamic Fundamentalism and the Nation of Islam in the United States

27

(13)

3 Analysis of a Racial Parasite: Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro

40

(10)

4 Decoding Black Nigeria's Political and Military Climate in Tears Of the Sun

50

(9)

5 Understanding Islam in the Destruction of Black Civilizations in Africa: A Brief Overview

59

(8)

6 Interpreting the Sameness in Japanese Writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Kappa and Nigerian Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard

67

(9)

7 Dissecting an Open Letter to Kenzaburo Oe: On a Black Man's Discovery of a Japanese Writer

76

(7)

8 Fatal Lives: The Dispossessed Aborigines in Australia

83

(11)

9 Suffer the Black Children: he Lives of Two African American Civil Rights Icons and their Youngest Offspring

94

(10)

10 The New Haitian Revolution Won't Be Televised: The Black Problem of a West Indian Nation Revisited

104

(9)

Bibliography

113

(6)

Index

119

(18)

About the Author

137

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Places in Political Time Voices from the Black Diaspora

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