No God but Man

Atiya Husain is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College.

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. L'Homme Moyen and American Anthropometry 23 2. Assata, The Muslim 51 3. The Rule of Racelessness 83 4. Assata, Black Madonna 107 Conclusion. Race: Theirs and Ours 131 Notes 139 Bibliography 169 Index 185

"Atiya Husain makes an exciting and original intervention in well-worn debates around Islam, race, and security to illuminate the blind spots on racialization in literature on secularism and Islam and the gaps around secularism and Islam in literature on racialization and Blackness. Analyzing state repression and logics of securitization in profound ways, Husain offers a striking account of genealogies of radicalism, race, and religion." - Darryl Li, author of (The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity) "Atiya Husain's No God but Man analyzes the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list to reveal the ways that race-as a social construction-is both galvanizing and confounding. Husain makes a provocative addition to the study of race." - Roderick A. Ferguson, William Robertson Coe Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies, Yale University