The Racialization of Islam in American Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5742209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil Gotanda (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 637 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 184-195 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716211408525 |
| OpenAlex | W2106097914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 10 |
After 9/11, the "Muslim terrorist" trope altered the American understanding of Islam. This article argues that the Muslim terrorist in our popular culture should not be seen as new but within an established tradition of racializing Asian Americans. The article employs three dimensions of racialization: raced body, racial category, and ascribed subordination. The raced body is the "brown" body of immigrants and descendants of immigrants from North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Southern Asia. "Muslim" as a racial category has acquired meaning beyond religion and now also describes a racial category: those whose ancestry traces to countries where Islam is significant. Linked to that category are the stereotypes of "terrorist," "spy," or "saboteur"-understandings within the tradition of characterizing Asian Americans as permanent, unassimilable foreigners. Inscribing the linked racial category and ascribed subordination of permanent foreignness upon the "brown" raced body is the racialization of Muslims into Muslim terrorists
Immigration · Islam · Political science · Race (biology) · Racialization · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics) · Terrorism · Trope (literature) · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
Race Knowledge
Credentials, Perpetual “Foreignness”, and Feeling out of Place
Intersectionality
Racialization of Muslim students in Australia, Ireland, and the United States
Eroding the protection against discrimination
Representation of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Swedish News Media
Shari‘a Consciousness
Outsiders at Home
Life expectancy, life disparity, and differential racialization among Chinese, Asian Indians, and Filipinos in the United States
Construction of Islam and the Muslims in the USA
Religion or Race? Using Intersectionality to Examine the Role of Muslim Identity and Evaluations on Belonging in the United States
Overcoming stigma
The Politicization of Fear
Enemy of My Enemy? An Examination of Potential Religious Group Threat Effects on Racial Attitudes
Lithuanians’ perception of terrorism
I Felt Like I was a Virus That Nobody Wanted to Be Near
National origin discrimination or racial discrimination? The mobilization of SNCF’s Moroccan railway workers
Third Space Identity Negotiation
Politicalcommunicationsowhite
A Boundary of White Inclusion
The racialization of American Muslim converts by the presence of religious markers
It's Not a Race, It's a Religion
The Criminal Justice System and the Racialization of Perceptions
Queering Islam and Muslim Americanness
Of mocktails and Muslims
Blasé
The (im)possibility of sociolinguistic hybridity
My Hijab Is Like My Skin Color
Racial and Other Sociodemographic Disparities in Terrorism Sting Operations
Islamophobia, racial discrimination law, and the question of self-identification
Racialization
Moving beyond (and back to) the black-white binary
How American Am I
| Citations per year | 2.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |