Prevailing understandings about race in prison often group black prisoners together, only separating them by gang affiliation. Yet, our essay…
Solitary confinement and the Nation of Islam
Race and Islam in America
Race, orthodoxy, and “real” Islam
More than anything, the Good (Orthodox) Muslim-Bad (Black) Muslim paradigm reveals the media’s seemingly willful ignorance of the longstanding diversity…
Farrakhan’s fading limelight
David Lepeska’s New York Times article “Farrakhan Using Libyan Crisis to Bolster His Nation of Islam” brought the once prominent…
Farrakhan, Qaddafi, and the definition of American Islam
In another example of how mass media shape and constrain what constitutes legitimate Islam and religion more generally, the New…