Alaina M. Morgan (Elena Morgan)
Academic historian and author of Atlantic Crescent, whose research examines overlapping Black, Afro-Caribbean, and South Asian Muslim diasporas and anti-imperial/anticolonial Muslim organizing in the Atlantic world.
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Jan 27, 2026 • 1h 11min
Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)
Alaina M. Morgan, historian and assistant professor studying Black and Muslim diasporas. She explains the “Atlantic Crescent” linking Black, Afro-Caribbean, and South Asian Muslim encounters. Topics include newspapers as layered archives, transnational figures like Abdul Basi Naim, Nation of Islam internationalism and Malcolm X, and Bermuda as a hub for diasporic circulation and political organizing.
Jan 27, 2026 • 1h 11min
Alaina M. Morgan, "Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora" (UNC Press, 2025)
Alaina M. Morgan, assistant professor of history at USC and author of Atlantic Crescent, explores linked Black, Afro-Caribbean, and South Asian Muslim worlds. She traces archival discoveries like Muhammad Speaks. Topics include overlapping diasporic encounters, Moorish Science and Ahmadiyya interactions, Malcolm X’s internationalism, and how these movements circulated into Bermuda’s anti-imperial organizing.
