Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire (eBook)

20 years after 9/11

Deepa Kumar (Autor)

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2021 | Ebook UK & RoW
302 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-78873-722-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In this incisive account, leading scholar of Islamophobia Deepa Kumar traces the history of anti-Muslim racism from the early modern era to the "e;War on Terror."e; Importantly, Kumar contends that Islamophobia is best understood as racism rather than as religious intolerance. An innovative analysis of anti-Muslim racism and empire, Islamophobia argues that empire creates the conditions for anti-Muslim racism, which in turn sustains empire.This book, now updated to include the end of the Trump's presidency, offers a clear and succinct explanation of how Islamophobia functions in the United States both as a set of coercive policies and as a body of ideas that take various forms: liberal, conservative, and rightwing. The matrix of anti-Muslim racism charts how various institutions-the media, think tanks, the foreign policy establishment, the university, the national security apparatus, and the legal sphere-produce and circulate this particular form of bigotry. Anti-Muslim racism not only has horrific consequences for people in Muslim-majority countries who become the targets of an endless War on Terror, but for Muslims and those who "e;look Muslim"e; in the West as well.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: 9/11 • Bush Doctrine • Clash of civilizations • critical race theory • Ground Zero • Ground Zero Mosque • Hijab • imperial feminism • Islamophobia • Moustafa Bayoumi • Muslim • Orientalism • Political Islam • Racism • September 11 • Terrorist • US Empire • veil • War on Terror
• ISBN-10: 1-78873-722-9 / 1788737229
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-722-7 / 9781788737227