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Sommario
Introduction Khaled A. Beydoun and Cyra Akila Choudhury; Part I. Race and Citizenship: 1. The citizen and the terrorist Leti Volpp; 2. Race, civil rights, and immigration law after September 11, 2001: the targeting of Arabs and Muslims Susan Akram and Kevin Johnson; 3. Constructing good aliens and good citizens: legitimizing the war on terror(ism) Karen Engle; 4. A rage shared by law: post-September 11 racial violence as crimes of passion Muneer I. Ahmad; Part II. The Politics of Islamophobia in the Courts: 5. The lost story of Iqbal Shirin Sinnar; 6. 'Muslim bans' and the (re)making of political Islamophobia Khaled A. Beydoun; 7; 'Islamic law' in US courts: judicial jihad or constitutional imperative? Faisal Kutty; Part III. Islamophobia in Criminal Law, and National Security Law: 8. A Muslim registry: a look at past practices and what may come next Abed A. Ayoub; 9. National security's broken windows Amna Akbar; 10. Muslim radicalization in prison: responding with sound penal policy or the sound of alarm? SpearIt; Part IV. Law, Society, and Islamophobia: 11. Property lawfare: historical racism and present Islamophobia in anti-mosque activism Cyra Akila Choudhury; 12. 'Liberty and death' Karen Rhone; 13. The gender of Islamophobia Aziza Ahmed; 14. Coercive assimilationism and Muslim women's identity performance in the workplace Sahar F. Aziz; Index.
Info autore
Cyra Akila Choudhury is Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law. She is an internationally recognized expert in property, gender, minorities and transnational security, and comparative law. Her scholarship appears in leading international law journals in the United States and a number of edited volumes.Khaled A. Beydoun is Associate Professor of Law at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville School of Law and Senior Affiliated Faculty at University of California, Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project. He is a leading law scholar on national security, Muslim Americans and Islamophobia and the author of American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear (2018).
Riassunto
This book brings together leading legal scholars in the United States to explore the emergence and rise of Islamophobia after the 9/11 terror attacks. It is a critical read for scholars and practitioners, advocates and students interested in deepening their knowledge of the subject matter.
