Rhea Rahman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhea Rahman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhea |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahman |
| SIGNATURE | RAHMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
White Supremacist Ways of Knowing Africa
White-adjacent Muslim development
Muslim aid organizations are relatively new actors in the Western aid industry. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research with the UK-based NGO Islamic Relief, I explore the organization's engagement with a school in need of repair in southern rural Mali that is also the site of a sacred shrine of importance to locals. I examine the contextual global logics of racialization that undergird different interpretations and practices of what it means …
Racializing the Good Muslim
Founded in Birmingham, England in 1984, Islamic Relief is today the world's largest and most-recognized Western-based Islamically-inspired non-governmental organization. Framed by an analysis of processes of racialization, I argue that Islamic Relief operationalizes not a singular, but multiple Muslim humanitarianisms. I examine what I suggest are competing racial projects of distinct humanitarianisms with regards to HIV and AIDS, health, and wel…
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Racializing the Good Muslim
Founded in Birmingham, England in 1984, Islamic Relief is today the world's largest and most-recognized Western-based Islamically-inspired non-governmental organization. Framed by an analysis of processes of racialization, I argue that Islamic Relief operationalizes not a singular, but multiple Muslim humanitarianisms. I examine what I suggest are competing racial projects of distinct humanitarianisms with regards to HIV and AIDS, health, and wel…
White-adjacent Muslim development
Muslim aid organizations are relatively new actors in the Western aid industry. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research with the UK-based NGO Islamic Relief, I explore the organization's engagement with a school in need of repair in southern rural Mali that is also the site of a sacred shrine of importance to locals. I examine the contextual global logics of racialization that undergird different interpretations and practices of what it means …
White Supremacist Ways of Knowing Africa
Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Islam (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Racialization (2 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (2 works)