Mark Anthony Neal is a Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Neal moderated this question and answer session on The American Malcolm panel with participants William Chafe, Sandy Darity and Zaheer Ali. This session was part of "The American Malcolm" panel that took place Friday, February 20, 2015 as part of the The Legacy of Malcolm X conference. The conference was sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center. Cosponsors were Asian & Middle Eastern Studies...

William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Duke Consortium on Social Equity at Duke University. Black men who express or demonstrate a willingness to take violent action in the cause of liberation stir a vast response in American literature and film. The portrayals of Malcolm X and Nat Turner in both fiction and historical works constitute paradigmatic examples of that...

Zaheer Ali is a Ph.D. student in history at Columbia University, where he is completing his dissertation on the history of the Nation of Islam’s Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, New York, 1954-1965. Malcolm X’s life and legacy had a profound impact on popular culture, especially evidenced in the use of his voice, image, and ideas in popular music. The Malcolm X Mixtape Project is a digital humanities project documenting his musical legacy that—by the time of its completion—will include nearly 50...

Bill Chafe will discuss how Malcolm X embodied a militant, black-power perspective—a perspective that was rooted in both his own history and his religious convictions. Malcom X’s revised perspective on the Nation of Islam after his trip to Africa made him ready—and willing—to help more moderate leaders of the movement, like Martin Luther King, Jr., tactically by making Dr. King seem reasonable by comparison with the more radical stances Malcolm embrace. This presentation was part of "The...

Hisham Aidi teaches political science and African Studies at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. This presentation discusses Malcolm X’s sojourn in Egypt and Ghana in 1964, his engagement with local cultural and political movements, and with the African American expatriate communities of Cairo and Accra that were, in the words of Julian Mayfield, trying to forge a Black Aesthetic for the cause of Black Liberation. This presentation will also examine how fifty...

Sohail Daulatzai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Malcolm X continues to haunt. From the racial liberalism of the Cold War to the imperial multiculturalism of the “War on Terror,” this talk will explore the meaning and implications of Malcolm’s recurrent presence within the culture and politics of U.S race craft. From his challenge to the Cold War and Civil Rights in the...

Maytha Alhassen is a University of Southern California (USC) Provost Ph.D. Although Malcolm X’s Egyptian Gazette “Zionist Logic” op-ed published on September 17, 1964 received considerable attention from Malcolmologists, origins of his political philosophical development on the Palestine Question remain a mystery. This presentation seeks to appraise the influence of a praxical Islamic Humanism on Malcolm’s pro-Palestine politics. In order to explore the political and spiritual relevance of...

Abbas Barzegar is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. Barzegar moderates this question and answer session on The Global Malcolm panel with participants Hisham Aidi, Maytha Alhassen, and Sohail Daulatzai. This session was part of "The Global Malcolm" panel that took place Friday, February 20, 2015 as part of the The Legacy of Malcolm X conference. The conference was sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center. Cosponsors were Asian & Middle Eastern...

February 21, 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of one of the most iconic leaders of the 20th century, Malcolm X El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. This conference brings together scholars from a variety of fields and is an invitation to connect our ideas, research projects, and activism across disciplinary divides. This conference is sponsored by Duke Islamic Studies Center. Cosponsors are Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (Duke University), Department of Religious Studies (Duke...