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Youssef Carter

Dr. Youssef Carter is a College Fellow in the departments of Anthropology and African & African-American Studies at Harvard University. He teaches courses on campus related to Muslims in the United States, African Diaspora, and Anthropology. He is also an advisory board member of the 'After Malcolm Digital Archive', at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, which chronicles the oral histories of African-American Muslims and serves as a repository for digitized historical documents, newspapers, and memorabilia related to their involvement in the Black Freedom Struggle from 1965 onward. In addition to other projects, he is working on a manuscript tentatively called “The Vast Oceans: Remembering God and Self on the Mustafawi Sufi Path” which is a multisite ethnography of a transatlantic spiritual network of African-American, West African, and European Sufis that deploy West African spiritual training to navigate historical-political contexts in the U.S. South and beyond.

Posts From This Author

Critiquing Black Muslim Reason: What Good is Critical Race Theory for Muslims?

By Youssef Carter // February 5, 2020February 5, 2020

Among Muslims of African-descent in the United States, there is a rather extensive history of their participation in the Black Freedom Struggle. From resistance to the forced migration and enslavement of African Muslims starting before…

History and Memory in the Muslim Community of Moncks Corner

By Youssef Carter // July 11, 2017

Encircled around Shaykh Arona Faye in the dining hall of Masjid Muhajjirun wal-Ansar of Moncks Corner (South Carolina), a dozen or so students listened intently as he recounted a story of resistance and spiritual power…