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Marvin X: A Critical Look at the Father
of Muslim American Literature
Edited
by El Muhajir (Marvin X)
Dedication
My life and my death are all for Allah. I believe in the teachings
of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I believe in the teachings
of Jelaluddin Balkhi, better known as Rumi. I believe in the
teachings of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen. Gain a knowledge of my teachers
and you will understand me. If you reject my teachers, there is no
need for you to proceed further.
Contents
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Chapter One: A Literary Biography
Lorenzo Thomas, Close Up and Personal
Michael E. Idland, A Voice That Must Be Heard
Lee Hubbard, Unplugged
Chapter Two: Autobiography, Somethin Proper, 1998
Dr. Nathan Hare, introduction to Somethin Proper
Dr. Julius E. Thompson, A Most Significant Work
Fahizah Alim, A Proper Response
James G. Spady, Making An Inventory and Constructing Self
Reginal Major, Trampling His Soul
Dingane (Joe Goncalves), Journey of A Restless Mind
Dr. James Smethurst, Marvin X and the Black Arts Movement
Chapter Three: Drama, 1965--
Michael E. Idland, Major Works and Themes
Steven Winn, 'Day' A Searing Account of Addiction
Dr. Nathan Hare, Letter to Marvin X
Dennis Leroy Moore, Parable of the Man Who Was Crucified
Lil Joe, Sexual Repression in Sergeant Santa
Chapter Four: Essays, in the Crazy House Called America,
2002
James W. Sweeney, foreword
Suzzette Celeste, MSW, MPA, introduction
Dr. Nathan Hare, In the Crazy House of the Negro
Dr. Nathan Hare, Letter to Marvin X
Junious Ricardo Stanton, A Healing Peek Into His Psyche
La Vonda R. Staples and Brenda A. Sutton, A Yoruba Chief Holds
Court
Lil Joe, Like Malcolm X, Marvin X Is A Revolutionary Muslim
John Woodford, Bittersweet Fruits of Wisdom
Aeeshah and Kokomon Clottey, The Quality of Heart
Brecht Forum, Existential Musing
Chapter Five: Poetry, Fly To Allah, 1969, Love
and War, 1995 and Land of My Daughters, 2005
Johari Amini (Jewel C. Latimore), Fly To Allah
Dr. Mohja Kahf, Love and War
Rudolph Lewis, Using the Past Rather Than Glorifying
Ishmael Reed, Overcoming With Faith and Will
Chapter Six: Essays, Wish I Could Tell You The Truth,
2005
Rudolph Lewis, Discourse by Exaggeration and Humor
Lil Joe, The Evolution of Consciousness
Dr. Nathan Hare, He's Really That Good
Pam Pam, Wish I, interview
Terry Collins, Wish I, interview |
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The
Contributors
Dr. Mohja Kahf, professor of English and Islamic
Literature, University of Arkansas. Her essay is revised (by ed.)
from an earlier version that appeared online at Muslim Wake
Up.Com.
She is the senior editor of the forthcoming anthology Muslim
American Literature, University of Arkansas Press. Marvin X is a
co-editor. Her recent collection of poetry is E-Mails from
Scheherazad, University Press of Florida.
Lorenzo Thomas, professor of English at the University of
Houston, Texas, and author of Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric
Modernism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry, University of
Alabama Press, 2000.
Michael Idland's essay is from African American Dramatists:
A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing
Group, 2004.
Lee Hubbard is a Bay Area journalist, this interview
appeared in the San Francisco Bayview newspaper.
Dr. Nathan Hare, sociologist/psychologist, is the father of
black studies in America. He and his wife, Julia, are close
associates, comrades and advisors to Marvin X. He is author of the
classic sociological study The Black Anglo-Saxons. With wife
Julia, he is co-author of The Endangered Black Family and The
Miseducation of the Black Child.
Fahizah Alim writes for the Sacramento Bee newspaper.
Marvin X is her mentor. Her critical comments on Islam and
male/female relations have been a source of inspiration to the
poet.
La Vonda R. Staples is an online personality for
newblackcity.com and creator of "Literally Speaking," an
internet live book club.
Brenda A. Sutton is the co-founder of Afrikan Consciousness Center
group and information director for Afrikan American award winning
author, Tina McElroy Ansa. La Vonda and Brenda are also co-authors
of "An Incident in Mayville," unpublished.
James G. Spady's essay appeared in the Philadelphia New
Observer. He is recipient of the American Book Award and the
National Newspaper Association's Meritorious Award. His works have
appeared in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals such as
African Studies Review, International Journal of African Studies,
College Language Association Journal, Black Scholar, Presence
Africaine, Journal of African Civilizations and elsewhere.
Steven Winn is drama critic for the San Francisco
Chronicle.
John Woodford is former editor-in-chief of Muhammad
Speaks.
He is currently editor of Michigan Today at the University of
Michigan.
Suzzette Celeste, MSW, MPA is a social worker and spiritual
practitioner at the East Bay Church of Religious Science. She also
teaches counseling at Oakland's Merritt College.
James W. Sweeney is former director of the Oakland
Independent Support Center, an outpatient center for the homeless
and dual diagnosed. He is a former Berkeley City Councilman.
Aeesha and Kokoman Clotty are directors of Attitudinal
Healing Center in Oakland and co-authors of Racial Healing.
Rudolph Lewis manages the African American literary website
ChickenBones. He will soon publish "The Best of ChickenBones," and
it is one of the best sites for African American literature on the
internet. The best source for up-to-date writings by Marvin X,
up-to-the-minute! Thanks Rudy for your hard work-a true trooper!
Ishamel Reed is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright,
editor and publisher. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and
Dartmouth, and for twenty years has been a lecturer at the
University of California Berkeley. He is a supporter of Marvin X's
many projects.
Lil Joe is Los Angeles community activist and revolutionary
theoretician. He was among the group of revolutionary students
from southern California who supported Marvin X when he fought to
teach at Fresno State University but was removed by then Gov.
Ronald Reagan, 1969. These students also supported his draft
trial. They said, "We want Marvin X, not in Vietnam, not in
jail, but on campus." Joe was also a member of the Black
Panther Party. (Note: We love you Lil Joe for raising high the
banner of revolution! As Mao taught, "The reactionaries will
never put down their butcher knives, they will never turn into
Buddha heads.")
Pam Pam is a community activist in San Francisco's
dangerous Sunnydale district. She also produced, filmed and
co-directed a film on Marvin X, Git Yo Mind Rite. She has a weekly
program on San Francisco's KPOO radio.
Terry Collins, nephew of Malcolm X through his sister Ella
Collins, is one of the founders and directors of KPOO radio. Terry
was one of the revolutionary students at San Francisco State
University, along with his roommate Danny Glover (who performed in
Marvin X's Black Arts West Theatre), fellow students Joe Rudolph (KPOO
founder, peace be upon him) and Marvin X.
Dr. Julius E. Thompson's essay appeared in African American
Review. He is a professor of African American Studies.
Reginald Major is author of The Panther Is A Black Cat, a
study of the Black Panther Party. He writes for Pacifica News
Service.
Dingane (Joe Goncalves) is founder and publisher of the 60s
bible of poetry, the Journal of Black Poetry.
Dennis Leroy Moore is a New York filmmaker. His As An
Act of Protest is an awarding winning film about the Neo-Black
Arts Movement.
Junious Ricardo Stanton is a journalist who writes for
newspapers nationwide, especially online journals such as The
Black World Today.
Brecht Forum is a New York center for radical culture.
Johari Amini's (Jewel C. Latimore) review is from Negro
Digest (Black World), 1969. Johari is one of the beautiful sister
poets of the Chicago Black Arts Movement.
James Smethurst’s comments are from the just released The
Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
He is Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at the
University of Massachusetts.
Preface of
father o f Muslim American Literature Introduction
Dedication
Contents The
Contributors
Bibliography of Marvin X
posted May 22, 2005
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
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principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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