Name:Instructor:Institution:Date of submission:Introduction In his book, Sherman Jackson vividly explains about the career line of Islam among the American blacks. Among all the western civilization, only America is home to the largest group of indigenous Muslim converts. However, most of the explanations that are floated around, none of them fit. Sherman Jackson notes that there lack substantial evidence into why Islam spread among the black in America much faster than to the other races such as American or the Hispanics (Jackson 28). The main question that the author addresses in this book is with regard to the connection of black Islam and the black movements of the early 20th century. In his answer Sherman, explains that, there is an assumption, in which most of the people feel that there must be some kind of connection between the black Americans and the Islamic religion. According to Sherman, there are no distinctive features that can link African Islam to proto-Islamic and the movements of the black movement that dated back in the early 20th century. In his argument, the momentum that Islam has enjoyed is as a result of black religion, a phenomenon that is distinctively American. Black religion is a movement that was god centred and rose up in the attempt to curb the anti-black racism that was going on at the time. It was a tool that the blacks in America communally sort after in a bid to combat this racism and redefine how the blacks were treated, hence reconstructing the face of American blackness (Jackson 109). Soon after the 1965 repeal of the national origins quota system, there was a great influx of Muslim immigrants. This group overshadowed the black Muslims who at the time were practising indigenous Islam. The new group`s nemesis was not supremacy of the white nor did they see them from a racial angle but as a threat to civilization and to their religion. Soon enough the blacks note that it is not possible to synonymously be against the west and the whites. Instead, the two g hand in hand, and thus being against the west also meant that one was also against the black Americanism. Just like the black Christians struggled during the early days to get in tune with western Christianity, the black Islam now found themselves trying to find their voice in the historical Islam context that was super-traditional. According to Sherman, the answer to reconcile black-ness and American-ness lies with the traditional Muslim practices.In his book, Sherman discusses how the blackamerican Muslims held the ownership of the interpretation that was Islam in the native America. However, in the year 1965 a law referred to as Immigration And Nationality Act was passed, that effect led to lifting of the ban on immigration of Asians and the Africans. The Immigration Act of 1924 that came before this only allowed the Europeans of northern origins to migrate into the America. As a result, very few of the ‘Sunni` Muslims had migrated into the USA up until...