Lovely cover- but the contents only work if you're not too hardheaded to think about them.

I met Dr. Sherman Jackson* in February of last year, shortly before "Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection" was published. I heard him speak at Harvard, and weaseled my way into where he was dining with Aminah McCloud, and a few Harvard faculty. Dr. Jackson spoke of his latest book, to be released later that spring, which deals with the development of black American expressions of Islam that are unique to the black American experience. It's more analysis than survey, so anyone unfamiliar with the Nation of Islam, the Moorish Americans, or other black American groups should read McCloud's "African American Islam" first.