The Racial Muslim

When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-38228-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz’s groundbreaking book demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century, Aziz explores the gap between America’s aspiration for and fulfillment of religious freedom. With America’s demographics rapidly changing from a majority white Protestant nation to a multiracial, multireligious society, this book is an in dispensable read for understanding how our past continues to shape our present—to the detriment of our nation’s future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aziz, Sahar F.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Esposito, John L

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Foreword by John L. Esposito

Introduction
1 • When American Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
2 • The Color of Religion
3 • Racialization of Jews, Catholics, and Mormons in the Twentieth Century
4 • From Protestant to Judeo-Christian National Identity: The Expansion of American Whiteness
5 • Social Construction of the Racial Muslim
6 • American Orientalism and the Arab Terrorist Trope
7 • Fighting Terrorism, Not Religion
8 • Officiating Islamophobia
9 • Criminalizing Muslim Identity
10 • The Future of the Racial Muslim and Religious Freedom in America
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sahar Aziz is Professor of Law, Middle East Legal Scholar, and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School and Founding Director of the Center for Security, Race, and Rights.