This book examines the significance of Malcolm X as a social theorist. Though Malcolm X has been studied and written about extensively, this is the first book to offer an in depth analysis of his contributions to critical social theory.

Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1: Novel Strategies of Interpretation
Novel Reading Strategies
Uniform Strategies of Reading
House Negro and Field Negro
Academic Form of Analysis
Chapter 2: Undisciplinary Fields of Knowledge
Descartes versus Rumi
Tutelage and the Riddle of Subjectivity
Symbolism Unthought
Field Strategies of Resistance
Chapter 3: Violence, Religion, and Extremism
Militant Secularism and Fanatic Religionism
Racial Revolution
Historiography of Revolt/Revolution in Sociology
Revolution and Radical Means of Political Transformation
Chapter 4: The Epic of America
The Mystery of Unsaid
Racism and American Foreign Policy
Islam, Religion, and the Question of Hermeneutics
Good Society
The Prophetic and the Analytic
Academia and the Prophetic Perspective
Personal Scholarly Narrative
Epilogue
References