One Nation Under Attack

Color-Blind Racism, Racialization, and White Victimhood in a Case of Organized Islamophobia

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ID2144079
AuthorsSarah Walton (0000-0002-8134-9110, University of Maine, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume65
Issue3
Pages380-400
Publication date2024-07-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00380253.2024.2312131
OpenAlexW4391994762
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

In the wake of 9/11 and the Trump campaign in 2016, organized Islamophobia has been on the rise in the U.S. In this article, I ask: How do those leading and participating in anti-Muslim mobilizations justify this discriminatory activism? To answer this question, I conducted a frame analysis of an anti-Muslim mobilization in Aberdeen, SD from 2016–2017. I analyzed the content of public meetings during this period (n = 8), the public Facebook posts of a local hate group, the Americans First, Task Force (n = 454), and individual Facebook user comments (n = 1370). I find that color-blind racist frames, place-based racial storytelling , white victimhood, and racialization are the central justifications deployed in this mobilization’s frames

Criminology · Islamophobia · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation) · White privilege · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Race, History, and American Society · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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