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Reimagining Malcolm X : street thinker versus homo academicus / Seyed Javad Miri

By: Miri, Seyed Javad [author].
Contributor(s): University Press of America, Inc [publisher].
Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : University Press Of America, Inc., [2016]Description: xiii, 84 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780761866077.Subject(s): X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 | African American civil rights workers | Black Muslims | SunnitesGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Prologue -- Note -- Introduction. 1 Novel strategies of interpretation : Novel reading strategies -- Uniform strategies of reading -- House Negro and field Negro -- Academic form of analysis -- Note. 2 Undisciplinary fields of knowledge : Descartes versus Rumi -- Tutelage and the riddle of subjectivity -- Symbolism unthought -- Field strategies of resistance -- Note. 3 Violence, religion, and extremism : Militant secularism and fanatic religionism -- Racial revolution -- Historiography of revolt/revolution in sociology -- Revolution and radical means of political transformation. 4 The epic of America : The mystery of unsaid -- Racism and American foreign policy -- Islam, religion, and the question of Hermeneutics -- Good society -- The prophetic and the analytic -- Academia and the prophetic perspective -- Personal scholarly narrative. Epilogue -- References
Summary: This book examines the significance of Malcolm X as a social theorist. Though Malcolm X has been studied and written about extensively, this is the first book to off an in-depth look at his contributions to critical social theory. Through analyzing Malcolm X's views on race, religion, academia, philosophy, and politics, this work provides a new conceptualization of this important thinker and activist
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-84)

Prologue -- Note -- Introduction. 1 Novel strategies of interpretation : Novel reading strategies -- Uniform strategies of reading -- House Negro and field Negro -- Academic form of analysis -- Note. 2 Undisciplinary fields of knowledge : Descartes versus Rumi -- Tutelage and the riddle of subjectivity -- Symbolism unthought -- Field strategies of resistance -- Note. 3 Violence, religion, and extremism : Militant secularism and fanatic religionism -- Racial revolution -- Historiography of revolt/revolution in sociology -- Revolution and radical means of political transformation. 4 The epic of America : The mystery of unsaid -- Racism and American foreign policy -- Islam, religion, and the question of Hermeneutics -- Good society -- The prophetic and the analytic -- Academia and the prophetic perspective -- Personal scholarly narrative. Epilogue -- References

This book examines the significance of Malcolm X as a social theorist. Though Malcolm X has been studied and written about extensively, this is the first book to off an in-depth look at his contributions to critical social theory. Through analyzing Malcolm X's views on race, religion, academia, philosophy, and politics, this work provides a new conceptualization of this important thinker and activist

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