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The Community : a memoir
- Title
- The Community : a memoir / N. Jamiyla Chisholm.
- Author
- Chisholm, N. Jamiyla
- Publication
- New York : Little A, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Description
- 178 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In 1978, when Jamiyla was two years old, her mother, Ummi, quit her job, converted to Islam with her husband, and moved into an exclusive Muslim society in Brooklyn. Once inside the Community, the family was separated by its powerful and charismatic leader, Dwight York, who was hiding behind the name Imam Isa. Forty years later, Jamiyla was ready to excavate and understand a past buried in bad dreams, disturbing memories, and inexplicable rage. Jamiyla's emotional memoir tells her family's story of life inside and outside the cult, and of escaping into new challenges as conservative Muslims in the secular Brooklyn they left behind. A harrowing and deeply personal history fraught with racial tension and devastating personal betrayals, The Community is also a hopeful story brimming with Black pride, justice, and the long-overdue healing between a daughter and mother"--
- Subject
- Chisholm, N. Jamiyla
- York, Dwight, 1935-
- Muslim women > United States > Biography
- Community leadership > Islam
- African American Muslims > Biography
- African Americans > New York > Religion
- Nuwaubian movement > New York > History
- African American Muslims
- African Americans > Religion
- Muslim women
- Nuwaubian movement
- Religion
- Community leadership
- African Americans
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Biography
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Religion
- New York (State) > New York
- New York (State) > Brooklyn
- United States
- New York (State) > Kings County
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-284
- ISBN
- 9781542037396
- 1542037395
- 9781542037389
- 1542037387
- LCCN
- 2022279832
- OCLC
- 1319487936
- 1319487936
- Author
- Chisholm, N. Jamiyla, author.
- Title
- The Community : a memoir / N. Jamiyla Chisholm.
- Publisher
- New York : Little A, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-284