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The History of Black-Muslim-Arab Identity in the United States and its Implications for Modern Racial Boundaries

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By Edward Curtis IV, S. Johnson, Ghanea Bassiri
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction A significant body of historical research has documented and revealed the presence and development of Black and African Muslim communities in the America from the colonial era until the present (Austin 1984; Diouf 1998; Gomez 2005).
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Moses of Cairo (Illinois)

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By Edward Curtis IV
| Belt Magazine
The idea that non-white immigrants are, generally speaking, new to the Midwest could not be further from the truth. By Edward Curtis IV Around 1899, my great, great-grandfather, a man named Hanna Samaha, left his beautifully green three-thousand-foot-high village located in contemporary Lebanon where, on a clear day, you could see the shores of the Eastern Mediterranean. He landed at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in the town of Cairo [pronounced “Care-oh”], Illinois.
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Muslims in America: A Short History

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By Walter Mead, Edward Curtis IV
| Foreign Affairs Verified
Less useful as a conventional history than as a glimpse into the process of how American Muslims are developing their identity, Curtis’ book never quite manages to define its subject or tell a coherent story. In part, this is because the story is so inscrutable. Fragments of Islamic practice survived among slaves, but records are scarce and their meaning is hard to untangle.
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