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ajiss-752	Rahman, Rafiqur	The Dissemination and Implementation of Islam within the African American Community	2021.0	33	.pdf	application/pdf	11954	400	43	Of course the American Census Bureau categories upon which these problematic classifications are based are polemical and are racially contested within the United States.21 African American Muslims reconstructed “Islam as a reli- gion and civilization of resistance to Euro-American imperialism and anti-Black racism,” and, as a result, Black Islam as a discrete Muslim religion began historically manifesting itself within the African American community and consciousness as a monotheistic faith tradition theo-historically capable of manumitting African American Christians from their transatlantic slave trade past.22 Many non-African immigrant Muslim communities are blithely unaware of the African American narrative concerning historical respectability, consciousness, and justice within the United States. By so doing, Black Islam theo-historically acknowledges the non-European particularity of their own idiosyncratic religion, culture, race, consciousness, social imaginary, community, and ethnicity by resurrecting an erased tribal ancestral name, mem- bership, and identity associated with their suppressed African Muslim forebears.58 Yahya Monastra aptly illustrates how the lexemic and etymological association, meanings, and connota- tions associated with the mindful and conscientious selection of one’s Islamic religious identity, membership.	cache/ajiss-752.pdf	txt/ajiss-752.txt