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Muhammad Ali in Africana Cultural Memory is a comprehensive study of Ali's identity and superlative impact framed in terms of the discipline's subfield of Africana cultural memory studies. This critical approach challenges us to itemize Ali's influential legacy with precise conceptual value wherein his mythological structure is illuminated as an inheritance.
List of contents
List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter One "Something Greater than Pride": Muhammad Ali and Black Cultural Mythology, Christel N. Temple; Chapter Two Muhammad Ali, the Nation of Islam, and Sport: The Grind of Spirituality, James L. Conyers Jr.; Chapter Three Muhammad Ali and the European Fabric of Domination, Molefi Kete Asante; Chapter Four Muhammad Ali as Skh, Wade W. Nobles; Chapter Five Let Us Make a Man: Muhammad Ali's Reeducation through Critical Black Pedagogy, Abul A. Pitre, Ruby Holden-Pitre, and Natalie Williamson; Chapter Six The Challenge of Race and Religion in the United States: From Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali; Bayyinah S. Jeffries; Chapter Seven Global Influence of Muhammad Ali's Pan-Ethnic Vision and Conviction: Africa and Asia in the 1970s, Suzuko Morikawa; Chapter Eight Muhammad Ali's Cuba Connections, Anju Reejhsinghani; Chapter Nine Muhammad Ali: The Greatest Advocate for Peace and Humanity, Rebecca Hankins; Chapter Ten Muhammad Ali, aka "The Greatest": Demonstration of Ubuntu, Derek Wilson; Chapter Eleven Still the People's Champ and Relevant in the Fight for Social Justice: Muhammad Ali's Conversion of Athletic Capital into Sociopolitical Capital, Billy Hawkins; Chapter Twelve Influencing at the Intersections: Black Sportswomen's Activism in the Era of Muhammad Ali, Akilah R. Carter-Francique; Chapter Thirteen Caring for the Minds of Our Heroes: A Brief Overview of Common Mental Health Impairments, Treatment Modalities, and Veteran Administration Resources, Karen E. Alexander, Ryan Moore, Jeanette Anderson, William Kouba, and Waveney LaGrone; Chapter Fourteen The Complementary Duo of Sports and Activism: Critical Reflections on Muhammad Ali as a Formidable Athlete and Activist, Howard Bartee Jr.; Chapter Fifteen Nostra Aetate, Inshallah: Muhammad Ali in Community Dialogue with Catholic Communicators, Autumn Raynor; Chapter Sixteen Ali: Standing for Something, Brandon Allen; Chapter Seventeen Muhammad Ali and Health and Wellness, Angela Branch-Vital, Andrea McDonald, Park Esewiata Atatah, Catherine Kisavi-Atatah, and James L. Conyers Jr.; Conclusion; List of Contributors; Index.
About the author
James L. Conyers, Jr., is Director of the African American Studies Program, Director of the Center for African American Culture, and University Professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston.
Christel N. Temple is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She specializes in cultural memory and Pan-Africanism and has authored
Black Cultural Mythology, Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise, and
Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism.
