For Non-Black POC

We know that people of color have internalized anti-Blackness, all too often perpetuating patterns and systems of violence against their Black sisters and brothers. These resources are tailored specifically to those who identify as non-Black POC. In order to cultivate true solidarity, we must educate ourselves and our communities about our place in and our relationship to this work.

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Non-Black POC Guide

A guide to starting anti-racist conversations with friends and family. This is written to serve as a starting point for how non-Black people of color can engage in conversation regarding the anti-Blackness within our respective communities.

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Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit

“This toolkit is a project of love from the grassroots, from and by Asian American communities. As Asian Americans, we believe that our liberation is tied to Black liberation and we continue to dream about a world where all of our people will be free.”

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South Asians for Black Lives: A Call for Action, Accountability and Introspection

“We are part of an ecosystem of complicity that allows for our individual privileges as non-Black people of color to be weaponized for further criminalization of Black people”.

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#BlackIslamSyllabus

Islam in the Americas

  • Sylvia Chan-Malik, Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam

  • James L. Conyers, Jr. and Abul Pitre (editors), Africana Islamic Studies (2016)

  • Edward E. Curtis IV, Muslims in America: A Short History (2009)

  •  Robert Dannin, Black Pilgrimage to Islam (2005)

  • Asad el Malik, Bismillah & Bean Pies: How Black Americans Crafted an Islamic Expression through Nationalism (2016)

  • Al-Hajj Wali Akbar Muhammad, Muslims in Georgia 1771-1965: A Historical View (2012)

  • Kathleen Malone O’Connor, “The Islamic Jesus: Messiahhood and Human Divinity in African American Muslim Exegesis”, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 66/3 (Autumn 1998), pp. 493-532

  •  Abdul Noor, The Supreme Understanding: The Teachings of Islam in North America (2002)

  • Samory Rashid, Black Muslims in the U.S.: History, Politics, and the Struggle of a Community (2013)

  • Richard Brent Turner, Islam in the African-American Experience (2003)

  • Sultana Afroz, “From Moors to Marronage: The Islamic Heritage of the Maroons in Jamaica”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 19/2 (1999), pp. 161-179

  • Sultana Afroz, “Invisible Yet Invincible: The Muslim Ummah in Jamaica”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 23/1 (2003), pp. 211-222

  • Hishaam Aidi, “Jihadis in the Hood: Race, Urban Islam and the War on Terror” http://www.merip.org/mer/mer224/jihadis-hood

  • Herbert Berg, “Mythmaking in the African American Muslim Context: The Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and the American Society of Muslims”, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 73/3 (2005), pp. 685-703.

  • Expressions of Islam in Contemporary African American Communities, The Fourth Annual Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Conference (April 7-8, 2012) http://www.islamicstudies.harvard.edu/expressions-of-islam-in-contemporary-african-american-communities/

  •  Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, A History of Islam in America: From the New World to the New World Order (2010)

  • Michael Gomez, Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas (2005)

  •  Aliyah Khan, Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean (2020)

  • Manning Marable and Hishaam Aidi (editors), Black Routes to Islam (2009)

  •  Aminah McCloud, African American Islam (1994).

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