A genealogy of Islamophobia in a global critical race framework
Religion, Whiteness, and Controlling Rationality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2149498 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Ponce (0000-0002-8367-9869, Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-141 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2024.2317953 |
| OpenAlex | W4392048809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 39 |
Contemporary Islamophobia, while pervasive in the West, has now escalated in societies as distinct as China, India, Myanmar, and Israel in the post-9/11 era. Yet, Islamophobia is not something new, with roots from the centuries after Islam's founding. This study argues that a global-historical framework is necessary to fully understand Islamophobia's origins and impact. It extends previous global critical race and racism frameworks and their focus on whiteness to include an emphasis on the epistemological and structural foundations of global Islamophobia. Within these foundations, two key elements are forwarded as the basis for a guiding ontology of whiteness: (1) the Enlightenment-era epistemological transition from religious ways of knowing to knowledge based on controlled and controlling rationality; and (2) the institutions built by European conquest. Using this conceptual framework, the study traces a genealogy of Islamophobia to identify five key moments in its development and resurgence
Criminology · Critical race theory · Genealogy · Islamophobia · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racism · Rationality · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Religion and Society Interactions
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Black Marxism, Revised and Updated Third Edition
Orientalism and Islam
Women and Gender in Islam
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The Multiple Faces of Islamophobia
Muslims in the Western Imagination
Arabs and Muslims in the Media
Islamophobia and Racism in America
Racisms
Outsiders at Home
The Limits of Whiteness
Forbidden Passages
Genealogical Fictions
Whiteness
The Threat of Race
Media representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2015
Medieval and Modern Concepts of Race and Ethnicity
On Saracen Enjoyment
Of madness itself
Refutations of racism in the ‘Muslim question’
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
The Difference the Middle Ages Makes
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A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework
The Racialization of Muslims
Sociology of Whiteness
Islamophobia' reconsidered
Racialization and religion
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |