Why I am a Five Percenter
$38.29
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2011
Summary
A thoughtful, insider view of The Five Percenters—a deeply complex and misunderstood community whose ideas and symbols influenced the rise of hip-hop. Misrepresented in the media as a black parallel to the Hell’s Angels, portrayed as everything from a vicious street gang to quasi-Islamic revolutionaries, The Five Percenters are a movement that began as a breakaway sect from the Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1960s Harlem and went on to impact the formation of hip-hop. References to Five Percent lan…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781585428687 |
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| ISBN-10: | 158542868X |
| Author: | Michael Muhammad Knight |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Jeremy P Tarcher |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 353g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
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Michael Muhammad Knight
Michael Muhammad Knight has studied Islam at a madrassa in Pakistan, the Allah School in Harlem, and Harvard University. His work has been censored, boycotted, confiscated, and threatened with legal action. This is his seventh book.
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