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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520382293
ISBN-139780520382299
eBay Product ID (ePID)15050072348
Product Key Features
Book TitleRacial Muslim : When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
Number of Pages356 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicDiscrimination, Islamic Studies, Civil Rights, United States / General
Publication Year2021
IllustratorYes
GenreLaw, Social Science, History
AuthorSahar F. Aziz
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2021-008760
Reviews The Racial Muslim is an important, timely addition to the literature on anti-Muslim racism. Aziz succinctly compresses a broad, yet relevant, range of topics into a relatively short text, all-the-while interrogating power, White supremacy, structural racism and the intersection of religion and race in racializing processes.
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal305.6970973
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments 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
SynopsisWhy 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.