The provocative debate about Malcolm X’s legacy that emerged after the publication of Manning Marable’s 2011 biography raised critical questions about the revolutionary Black Nationalist’s importance to American and world affairs: What was Malcolm’s association with the Nation of Islam? How should we interpret Malcolm’s discourses? Was Malcolm antifeminist? What is Malcolm’s legacy in contemporary public affairs? How do Malcolm’s early childhood experiences in Michigan shape and inform his worldview? Was Malcolm trending toward socialism during his final year? Malcolm X’s Michigan Worldview responds to these questions by presenting Malcolm’s subject as an iconography used to deepen understanding of African descendent peoples’ experiences through advanced research and disciplinary study. A Black studies reader that uses the biography of Malcolm X both to interrogate key aspects of the Black world experience and to contribute to the intellectual expansion of the discipline, the book presents Malcolm as a Black subject who represents, symbolizes, and associates meaning with the Black/Africana studies discipline. Through a range of multidisciplinary prisms and themes including discourse, race, culture, religion, gender, politics, and community, this rich volume elicits insights about the Malcolm iconography that contribute to the continuous formulation, deepening, and strengthening of the Black studies discipline.
ContentsForeword by Herb BoydPrefacePart 1. Malcolm as a Theoretical FrameworkMalcolm X from Michigan: Race, Identity, and Community across the Black World, Rita Kiki Edozie with Curtis StokesThe Paradigmatic Agency of Malcolm X: Family, Experience, and Thought, Abdul AlkalimatReeducating the Afro-American: Malcolm X’s Scholarly and Historical Pedagogy, Lenwood G. DavisMalcolm X: Master of Signifyin, Geneva SmithermanIf You Can’t Be Free, Be Indignant: The Womanist Legacy of Malcolm X, Sheila Radford-HillMalcolm-esque: A Black Arts Literary Genre, Joseph McLarenPart 2. Malcolm and Community EngagementMalcolm X’s Pre–Nation of Islam (NOI) Discourses: Sourced from Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Archives, Charles Ezra FerrellLiberation and Transformation through Education: Black Studies at Malcolm X College, Chicago, Edward C. Davis IVMalcolm X: An Education of Positive Youth Development Challenged by Street Culture, Carl S. Taylor, Pamela R. Smith, and Cameron “Khalfani” HermanA Detroit Black Panther’s Soldiering Journey with Malcolm X: Extract Memoirs from an X Heir, Ahmad A. RahmanMalcolm X and the Black Campus Movement: Shaping Academic Communities, Ibram X. KendiPart 3. Malcolm and Black World StruggleMalcolm X, Islam, and the Black Self, Zain AbdullahMalcolm X and the Struggle for Socialism in the United States, Curtis StokesMalcolm X, Black Cultural Revolution, and the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Detroit, Errol A. HendersonMalcolm X and the Cuban Revolution, Ollie JohnsonMalcolm Omowale X (Re)Turns to Africa: Pan-Africanism and the Black Studies Agenda in a Global Era, Rita Kiki EdozieWorks by Malcolm XContributorsIndex
