{"id":15029,"date":"2026-08-28T22:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/08\/28\/for-the-culture-one-ummah-one-barrio-explores-the-radical-history-of-new-yorks-latine-muslims-culture-the-indypendent\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:31:58","slug":"for-the-culture-one-ummah-one-barrio-explores-the-radical-history-of-new-yorks-latine-muslims-culture-the-indypendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/08\/28\/for-the-culture-one-ummah-one-barrio-explores-the-radical-history-of-new-yorks-latine-muslims-culture-the-indypendent\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Culture: \u201cOne Ummah, One Barrio\u201d Explores the Radical History of New York\u2019s Latine Muslims\u00a0 Culture \u2013 The Indypendent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the late \u201960s and early \u201970s, New York was alive with revolutionary spirit. Coming off the heels of the Civil Rights Movement and anti-Vietnam War protests, the decolonial mission of the Third World movement was making itself felt inside major U.S. cities, where political organizations like the Black Panther Party and <a href=\"https:\/\/lpeproject.org\/blog\/the-young-lords-building-power-through-direct-action\/\">Young Lords Party<\/a> were organizing urgently for the self-determination of colonized peoples living within the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the tail end of the \u201960s, the Young Lords set up their office in New York\u2019s Spanish Harlem. Organizing explicitly under the banner of anti-imperialism, the Young Lords addressed the systematic neglect of Spanish Harlem\u2019s living conditions and socioeconomic dispossession of Nuyoricans through survival programs and daring direct actions, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcny.org\/story\/peoples-health-lessons-young-lords-todays-new-york\">1970 Lincoln Hospital occupation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming of age in these radical heydays, four young members of the Young Lords Party \u2014 Mark \u201cAbdus Salaam\u201d Ortiz, John \u201cYahya Abdul-Latif\u201d Figueroa, Freddie \u201cIbrahim\u201d Gonz\u00e1lez and Ramon \u201cUmar Abdur Rahim\u201d Ocasio \u2014 found themselves at a crossroads in their revolutionary path. They were in search of a spiritual grounding for their political struggle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a chance encounter with Abdullahi Rodriguez \u2014 one of the first Puerto Rican converts to Islam \u2014 in 1975, the quartet began to explore Islam, each eventually converting. In 1987, they came together to establish the Alianza Isl\u00e1mica.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rooted in the same socialist, internationalist principles of the Young Lords, Alianza Isl\u00e1mica was the largest Latino Muslim organization in the U.S., which focused on melding faith and culture as tools to organize Latines and Muslims and promote community self-development. Alianza established the first Spanish-speaking mosque in New York City; organized GED and ESL programs; facilitated public health, nutrition and martial arts workshops; and made waves as the first Islamic organization to perform the ritual washing of Muslims who died of AIDS, as well as the first to start a recovery group for former addicts and converts to Islam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne Ummah, One Barrio,\u201d curated by Maia Villalba and currently on view at El Barrio\u2019s Artspace PS109, stages archival materials and community art submissions to explore the legacy of this revolutionary Muslim Nuyorican history. Spanning nearly 40 years of Latine Muslim history, Villalba invites viewers to consider how faith and culture can be anchoring points in guiding revolutionary struggle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe \u2018One Ummah, One Barrio\u2019 name speaks to the inherent neighborly character and foundation upon which Alianza was built upon, in that you love for your brother when you love for yourself,\u201d Villalba said. \u201cIt signifies the common united struggle against U.S. imperialism, racism, colorism, Islamophobia\u2026the title is a love letter to the whole <em>ummah<\/em>, Muslim and non-Muslim, who see a common united struggle in the collective fight for liberation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A call for unity is at the heart of Alianza Isl\u00e1mica\u2019s religious and organizing practices, and makes itself present in the exhibit\u2019s opening pieces. As visitors descend the stairs leading into PS109\u2019s exhibition space, they\u2019re first greeted with two parallel group portraits capturing the diversity of the Muslim community. On the right is a blown-up scan of Newsweek\u2019s July 2007 cover, \u201cSpecial Report: Islam in America,\u201d which features founding member of Alianza Isl\u00e1mica, Ibrahim Gonz\u00e1lez. To its left hangs a 2026 restaging of the image shot by 1495, a New York-based production company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The images capture a community that is diverse, yet united by a singular faith. The collectivity depicted in these images, however, would not have been possible without a history of struggle undertaken by groups like the Alianza. As they were first emerging as a Latino Muslim organization, they had to advocate for recognition from the Muslim and Puerto Rican communities, which struggled to accept the mixing of their cultures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlianza Isl\u00e1mica was truly at the frontier of building a new Islamic culture, in that they were first turned away from their local mosques and told, \u2018you can\u2019t speak Spanish here.\u2019 And they were like, why can\u2019t I express my love for Allah through the tongue that I was taught to know and to love and to communicate in?\u201d Villalba recounted. \u201cAnd I think that they expressed a very unique blending of Puerto Rican, New Yorkian, and Islamic faith and culture in the beautiful, vibrant tapestry of the urban cityscape, with the deeply rooted faith they lead with in every sphere of life that they enter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Downstairs, a long wall filled with archival documents, photographs and newspaper clippings \u2014 taken from the Center for Puerto Rican Studies\u2019 Ibrahim Gonz\u00e1lez Papers collection \u2014 vividly charts Alianza Isl\u00e1mica\u2019s origin story and contributions to developing Muslim Nuyorican culture. Split into five parts, the exhibit first tells the story of Alianza Isl\u00e1mica its revolutionary origins, the obstacles it faced in establishing itself as a legitimate group, the cross-cultural solidarity it insisted upon, and the culture and infrastructure it created for Latine Muslims before dissolving in 2005. The last part moves into the present era, as works created by Latine Muslim New Yorkers fill the other walls of the gallery room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the corner of the gallery sits <em>Silla de Al-Andalus<\/em> (2026), knit and designed by Frey Ranaldo. In the early stages of planning \u201cOne Ummah, One Barrio,\u201d Villalba asked Ranaldo, a knitwear designer and childhood friend of hers, to reimagine the Monobloc chair \u2014 a staple of the cookouts she grew up on. Ranaldo then wrapped the chair in an orange and blue fabric \u2014 a nod to the Islamic architecture of Andalusia \u2014 which he designed as an ode to Palestinian tatreez. The chair rests atop a Tunisian prayer mat gifted to Villalba from a friend of hers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlianza Isl\u00e1mica drew a lot of inspiration from the <em>Reclaimando Nuestra Herencia Islamica; Reclaiming Our Islamic Heritage<\/em>. That heritage that they\u2019re speaking to is from Andalusia,\u201d Villalba said. \u201cThey drew a lot of strength from that community way back when, when people were like, you\u2019re not Boriqua, you\u2019re also not Muslim, you\u2019re also not this and that. And they\u2019re like, well, no, we can draw a history all the way to Andalusia, that we\u2019ve existed and we\u2019ve been here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibit features poetry, photography, illustrations, mixed media works, henna art, mosaic tile work, and textile art, each of which remixes elements from Latine and Muslim cultures. Arabic calligraphy and beadwork is stiched into a Yankees cap by Iman Abdul-Rassoul, who brings her Puerto Rican and Lebanese ancestry into symbols of New York culture. Accompanying Abdul-Rassoul\u2019s piece are two kufis crocheted by Shane Araujo, which depict the Puerto Rican and Cuban flags.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think\u2026[of] one of my favorite quotes by Toni Cade Bambara, who says \u2018the role of the artist is to make revolution irresistible,\u2019\u201d Villalba said. \u201cThe exhibition is as much an invitation to revolutionary struggle. To pick up that pen, to pick up that paintbrush, to start that project that that you\u2019ve been procrastinating on, and to start making something irresistible for the sake of revolution.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two works are featured from the visual architect of Alianza Isl\u00e1mica, Jorge \u201cFabel\u201d Pabon. The first is a pair of painted machetes \u2014 a symbol of anti-colonial Puerto Rican struggle \u2014 which act as a recreation of a pair once touted by Pabon while he was in the Alianza. Hanging from the ceiling above is a painted \u201c<em>shahada<\/em> umbrella\u201d crafted specifically for the exhibition. Pabon\u2019s signature graffiti lettering style served as the inspiration for a banner co-created by Villalba and Justin Romero, which reads, \u201cOne Ummah, One Barrio.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Villalba, a Chinese-Cuban New Yorker who\u2019s been organizing across the city since their youth, the story of the Alianza Isl\u00e1mica came to them at a time when they were at a similar spiritual crossroads in their path. An undergraduate student at NYU at the time, Villalba was active in organizing with the student pro-Palestine movement, and asking herself the same questions about how to make a revolutionary movement that lasts. As she personally grew interested in converting to Islam and grounding her struggle in a greater faith, a professor shared the story of the Alianza Isl\u00e1mica with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt just felt like I was reading a story of my own ancestors. It felt like a story, a legacy that I was the new generation of, and that was really exciting to me because it felt like I had a starting point,\u201d Villalba said. \u201cI had an entry point into understanding how to build revolutionary struggle from a point of faith.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In representing the history of the organization, Villalba encourages visitors to take seriously the lessons that histories of revolutionary Islamic organizing can offer to grassroots political movements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are in a moment of transition, of thinking about how to create long-lasting movements that are built on strength and love and not fear. And I think Alianza Isl\u00e1mica is a love letter to the people,\u201d Villalba said. \u201cFaith is a tool\u2026[Muslims and non-Muslims] can learn from the Islamic example because at its root is humility, is belief in something bigger than yourself. And what is resistance, and what is fighting for liberation, other than believing in a better world than this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indypendent.org\/2026\/08\/for-the-culture-one-ummah-one-barrio-explores-the-radical-history-of-new-yorks-latine-muslims\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late \u201960s and early \u201970s, New York was alive with revolutionary spirit. 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