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Why I Am a Five Percenter by Michael Muhammad Knight is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Why I Am a Five Percenter about?
A thoughtful, insider view of The Five Percenters-a deeply complex and misunderstood community whose ideas and symbols influenced the rise of hip-hop. Misrepresented in the media as a black parallel to the Hell's Angels, portrayed as everything from a vicious street gang to quasi- Islamic revolutionaries, The Five Percenters are a movement that began as a breakaway sect from the Nation of Islam (NOI) in 1960s Harlem and went on to impact the formation of hip-hop. References to Five Percent langu
Who reads Why I Am a Five Percenter?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Michael Muhammad Knight
- Publisher
- TarcherPerigee
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101547588
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Memoir, Science, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (56 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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