Nothing Has to Make Sense - Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism

Informationen zum Autor Sherene H. Razack is professor of gender studies and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in women’s studies at UCLA. She is author of Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody and Casting Out: Race and the Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics. Klappentext "This book argues that the figure of the Muslim reveals a world divided between the deserving and the disposable, where people of European origin are the former and all others are confined to regimes of disposability. Emerging from critical race theory, and bridging with Islamophobia/critical religious studies, it demonstrates that anti-Muslim racism reveals white supremacy as a global force"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsIntroduction: Anti-Muslim Racism, Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Law1. “A New Phase of a Very Old War”: Islam and White Conservative Christian Aggrievement2. “I Can Never Tell If You’re Responding to My Smile”: Desiring Muslim Women3. “Terrorism in Their Genes”: Racial Science and the Muslim Terrorist4. “We Didn’t Kill ’em, We Didn’t Cut Their Heads Off”: Torture and the Making of American InnocenceConclusion: Arriving as MuslimAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sherene H. Razack
• Verlag: University Of Minnesota Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781517912352
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1235-2
• Seiten: 272
• Serie: Muslim International
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sozialstrukturforschung