The most fascinating American religion is arguably the Nation of Islam. Founded in 1930 by a mysterious salesman, the organization grew to tens of thousands of members. By the 1960s, controversial orators like Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan were traveling nationwide to challenge the integrated liberal civil rights consensus represented by figures like Martin Luther King Jr. In this documentary, we explore the beliefs and inner workings of the LostFound Nation.

Sources

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Taylor, Ula Yvette. “The Promise of Patriarchy.” Women and the Nation of Islam, 2017.

Muhammad, Elijah. The Supreme Wisdom Solution to the Socalled NEGROES Problem VOL. 1. 1997. Bowker, https://doi.org/10.1604/9781884855139.

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Gibson, DawnMarie, and Jamillah Karim. “Women of the Nation.” Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam, 2014.
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Articles/Journals:

Abdat, Fathie Ali. “The Moorish Science Temple of America.” Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements, edited by Muhammad Afzal Upal and Carole M. Cusack, Brill, 2021, pp. 673–93. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.... Accessed 29 Dec. 2022.

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“The Imam’s Next Move : W. Deen Mohammed Has Moved the Black Muslims in His Ministry Toward Reconciliation With Other Races and Religions. Now, He Wants the Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan to Put Aside His Separatist Sentiments and Join Him.” Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 1994, www.latimes.com/archives/laxpm19940804ls33284story.html.

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“A Proletarian Critique of the Nation of Islam Melancholic Troglodytes.” libcom.org, libcom.org/article/proletariancritiquenationislammelancholictroglodytes. Accessed 20 Jan. 2023.

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Research:

Fiske, Susan T. “Managing ambivalent prejudices: The smartbutcold, and the warmbutdumb sterotypes.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science vol. 639,1 (2012): 3348. doi:10.1177/0002716211418444

Lester, Julius. “BLACKS, JEWS, AND FARRAKHAN.” dissentmagazine.org, June 1994, www.dissentmagazine.org/wpcontent/files_mf/1650908930BlacksJewsandFarrakhanSummer94.pdf.

Music:

All Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

Songs:
“Dark Walk”
“Bicycle”
“Clean Soul”
“Dirt Rhodes”
“Dreams Become Real”
“Heavy Heart”
“Over Under”