Butch Ware
Butch Ware | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (PhD) |
| Political party | Green |
Rudolph "Butch" T. Ware III (born 1974) is an American associate professor, hip hop artist, and the 2024 vice presidential nominee for the Green Party. He is one half of the hip hop duo Slum Prophecy.
Education
Ware received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota in 1997.[1] He received his PhD in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania.[2]
Career
A historian of West Africa at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he first began teaching at Northwestern University, and later at the University of Michigan.[3][4]
Ware is also one half of the hip hop duo Slum Prophecy. Less than two weeks before he began running for vice president, Slum Prophecy released an album titled "Aqsa Flood".
In August, he was selected by Jill Stein as the vice presidential nominee of the Green Party in the 2024 United States presidential election.[5]
Political positions
Israel–Hamas war
Four days after the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, Ware sent a tweet that supported the attack, saying that "Oppressed people don’t have a RIGHT to resist occupation, we have a RESPONSIBILITY to resist."[6]
Discography
- Aqsa Flood (2024)
Selected publications
- Ware, Rudolph T.; Wright, Zachary Valentine; Syed, Amir (2018). Jihad of the Pen: The Sufi Literature of West Africa. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-416-863-5.[7]
- Ware, Rudolph T. (2014). The Walking Qurʼan: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-4696-1431-1. Project MUSE book 31232.[8]
References
- ^ "Meet Butch - Jill Stein 2024". Retrieved September 16, 2024.
- ^ "Butch Ware – Department of History, UC Santa Barbara". Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- ^ "EIHS Lecture: 'Visionaries: Second Sight and Social Change in West Africa Since 1800'". U-M LSA Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies (Press release).
- ^ Ebbiary, Alyaa (November 16, 2022). "Prof. Rudolph Bilal Ware". Journal of Education in Muslim Societies. 4 (1). ISSN 2641-0052.
- ^ Buchman, Cassie (August 16, 2024). "Green Party candidate Jill Stein selects Dr. Butch Ware as running mate". NewsNation. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
- ^ Staff, J. I. (October 28, 2024). "Jill Stein's running mate celebrated violence against Israelis". Jewish Insider. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
- ^ Reviews of Jihad of the Pen:
- U Chinedu Amaefula, African Studies Quarterly, ProQuest 2424657574
- Wendell Marsh, The Journal of African History, doi:10.1017/S0021853721000153
- Eliza Tasbihi, Journal of Islamic Studies, doi:10.1093/jis/etab038
- ^ Reviews of The Walking Qur'an:
- Anouk Cohen, Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques (in French), [1]
- Emad Hamdeh, American Journal of Islam and Society, doi:10.35632/ajis.v32i1.961
- Muhammed Haron, African Historical Review, doi:10.1080/17532523.2016.1227605
- David E. Skinner, Islamic Africa, doi:10.1163/21540993-00602010, JSTOR 90017388
- Alden Young, "A Revisionist History of West Africa", Books & Ideas, [2]
External links
- Faculty website
- "Christopher Brown and Rudolph Ware". The New York Public Library.
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- 2024 United States vice-presidential candidates
- American historians of Islam
- American male non-fiction writers
- Muslims from California
- Green Party of the United States vice presidential nominees
- Historians of Africa
- University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
- University of Michigan faculty
- University of Minnesota alumni
- University of Pennsylvania alumni