TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander,Amy
TI  - The Farrakhan factor: African-American writers on leadership, nationhood, and minister Louis Farrakhan 
SN  - 9780802135971
AV  - BP223 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - Grove Press
KW  - Farrakhan, Louis.
KW  - Black Muslims
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Acc. numbers 103139; 1; Our brother, the other: Farrakhan and a vigil for new black leadership; Amy Alexander --; charmer; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. --; Minister Louis Farrakhan and the continuing evolution of the Nation of Islam; Ernest Allen, Jr. --; Who's afraid of Louis Farrakhan: Media and race relations coverage; Erna Smith --; Minister Louis Farrakhan's economic rhetoric and reality; Julianne Malveaux --; Louis Farrakhan, ethnitopia, and the politics of race translation; Michael Eric Dyson --; Inside out: Contemporary American herstory; Fahizah Alim --; Misunderstood alliance: Louis Farrakhan and the world community of Muslims; Aminah B. McCloud --; Farrakhan, the hip-hop generation, and the failure of black American leadership; Ron Nixon --; Nation of Islam and me; Salim Muwakkil --; Farrakhan fever: Defining the divide between blacks and Jews; Derrick Bell --; Ham, a violin, and ohhhh those psychic blues; Itabari Njeri --; Of Malcolm, Farrakhan, and the politics of rage; Leonard Pitts, Jr. --; Farrakhan, 1985 to 1996: Consistency of Calypso Louis; Stanley Crouch --; Big persons and the littles; Gwendolyn Brooks --; Louis Farrakhan's ministry of misogyny and homophobia; Irene Monroe --; On young black men, the Declaration of Independence, and new definitions of leadership: Conversation with Joseph Marshall, Jr. / Amy Alexander; 2
N2  - The Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan is undeniably one of the most controversial, provocative, and misunderstood figures in American social and cultural politics. Now, for the first time, leading African-American intellectuals and writers come together to respond to Farrakhan, the myth and the reality, in the process reexamining and redefining notions of black nationalism, community, and African-American leadership. The Farrakhan Factor gets past the headlines and sound bites, to examine Minister Farrakhan's impact from the standpoints of economics, media analysis, community activism, ethnic identity, sexual politics, and black youth culture. The commentators gathered here place Farrakhan in context: from Gwendolyn Brooks's lyrical and insightful reflections on Farrakhan the man; to Stanley Crouch's uncompromising indictment of Farrakhan as overhyped and out of touch; from Michael Eric Dyson's examination of the heritage that prepared Farrakhan for leadership; to Derrick Bell's discussion of the anguish and unfulfillment Farrakhan addresses in many black Americans. The sixteen essays collected here combine sophisticated thought with active, personal engagement to candidly examine this enigmatic and increasingly important voice
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