Abdul Alkalimat
Abdul Alkalimat | |
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Born | Gerald Arthur McWorter November 21, 1942 |
Nationality | American |
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Employer | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
Notable work | Introduction to Afro-American Studies: A Peoples College Primer (1984); The History of Black Studies (2021) |
Relatives | Free Frank McWorter (great-great-grandfather) |
Website | alkalimat |
Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald Arthur McWorter, November 21, 1942)
Alkalimat is the great-great-grandson of Free Frank McWorter.[3]
Biography
Born as Gerald Arthur McWorter in
Though I remember ... people outside the project saying, "Ah, you're living on welfare, kinda." But I think I had a childhood second to none. I remember those years as golden years, frankly. I cherish having grown up in Cabrini.[5]
Alkalimat attended Ottawa University, where he earned a B.A. in sociology and philosophy in 1963. He completed his M.A. in sociology at the University of Chicago in 1966, and earned a Ph.D. in sociology there in 1974.[6]
During the late 1960s, he helped create the Institute of the Black World (IBW) in Atlanta with professors Vincent Harding and Stephen Henderson and other student activists, including Howard Dodson, A. B. Spellman, William Strickland, and Council Taylor. The IBW became "the most dynamic black 'think tank' of the era", according to Peniel E. Joseph, assistant professor of Africana studies at Stony Brook University.[7]
In the early 1970s, Alkalimat established Peoples College, a
Alkalimat helped to organize the Illinois Council for Black Studies, and in 1982 he hosted the annual meeting of the National Council for Black Studies (NCBS). He was elected the NCBS chairman, but the organization's board questioned the results and called for a new election the following year to determine whether Alkalimat's ascension to the post was legitimate. In an election that many members considered confusing, Alkalimat was voted out. New voting rules were adopted by the board that made the results retroactive, stripping Alkalimat of his chairmanship.[10]
In 1991, Alkalimat wrote Malcolm X for Beginners. He and his publisher,
Selected works
- Introduction to Afro-American Studies (1984), Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press (available online)
- Harold Washington and the Crisis of Black Power in Chicago (1989), Chicago: Twenty-First Century Books (with Douglas C. Gills)
- Malcolm X for Beginners (1990), New York: Writers and Readers Press (available for download in PDF format)
- Job?Tech: The Technological Revolution and Its Impact on Society (1995), Chicago: Twenty-First Century Books (with Douglas C. Gills and Kate Williams)
- The African American Experience in Cyberspace: A Resource Guide to the Best Websites on Black Culture and History (2004) Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press
- eBlack Studies (2004), Chicago: Twenty-First Century Books
- "Cyberpower". Public Sphere Project. Schuler. 2008. Retrieved October 27, 2015. (with Kate Williams)
- Revolutionary Ubuntu: The shackdwellers and poor people of South Africa, eBlack Studies, 2009 (available for download in PDF format)
- Black Toledo: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Toledo, Ohio (2017) Leiden & Boston: Brill
- The History of Black Studies (October 2021), London: Pluto Press[15]
- Dialectics of Liberation: The African Liberation Support Movement (2022), Africa World Press
References
- ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ISBN 0-275-98504-0. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Hughes, Clyde (October 30, 2005). "Digging into history: UT professor's ancestor started free town". Toledo Blade.
- ^ Abdul Alkalimat bio, eblackchicago.org.
- ^ ISBN 0-252-07213-8. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ "Abdul Alkalimat (Gerald A. McWorter)" (PDF). Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ISBN 0-415-94595-X. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ "IU Northwest celebrates 50 years of Black Studies". IU Northwest News. Indiana University Northwest. January 29, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
- ISBN 978-1-59213-572-1. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
- ISBN 0-631-23516-7. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
- ^ Anderson, Susan Heller (July 10, 1991). "Chronicle". The New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Boyd, Herb (July 20, 1991). "Dispute over Malcolm X Book Pits Betty Shabazz Against Chicago-Based Activist". New York Amsterdam News.
- ^ Alkalimat, Abdul (July 15, 1991). "A Statement by Abdul Alkalimat". Malcolm X: A Research Site. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ISBN 1-4022-0171-0.
- ISBN 9780745344225.