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The racial Muslim : when racism quashes religious freedom /

"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 discri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aziz, Sahar F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by John Esposito
  • Introduction
  • When American racism quashes religious freedom
  • The color of religion
  • Racialization of Jews, Catholics, and Mormons in the twentieth century
  • From Protestant to Judeo-Christian : the expansion of American whiteness
  • Social construction of the racial Muslim
  • American orientalism and the Arab terrorist trope
  • Fighting terrorism, not religion
  • Officiating Islamophobia
  • Criminalizing Muslim identity
  • The future of the racial Muslim and religious freedom in America
  • Conclusion.