ISBN:
9780520382305
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (357 pages)
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Snow, Vanita [Rezension von: Aziz, Sahar, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom] 2023
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Aziz, Sahar The racial Muslim
DDC:
305.6970973
Keywords:
Muslims-United States-Social conditions
;
Islamophobia-United States
;
Religion and politics-United States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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.
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