The racialization of American Muslim converts by the presence of religious markers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6255859 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Michael Casey (0000-0001-9473-2023, University of South Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 521-537 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnicities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14687968211015210 |
| OpenAlex | W3172626120 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 31 |
Recent scholarship has employed racialization theory to make sense of the Muslim experience in the West. Research shows that if Muslims don religious markers—such as a hijab—they are racialized as ‘Muslim’ and associated with negative stereotypes concerning Islam. This (ethno)racialization has also been found to extend to white Muslim converts who wear these markers—sometimes subjecting them to anti-Muslim prejudice. The current study picks up this thread, comparing the experiences of converts who are white with those of people of color. In-depth interviews with 39 American converts to Islam reveal that their experiences of anti-Muslim prejudice differ sharply by race and by presentation of self. Findings suggest that white converts are only subjected to prejudice if they wear Muslim religious markers, not simply for having converted. Black converts who wear these markers are met with both positive and negative appraisals. I discuss my findings in light of what they tell us about the power of religious markers to (ethno)racialize their wearers, and the disruption these markers cause to the racial hierarchy—specifically that wearing Muslim religious markers is met with prejudice because it signals a challenge to the normativity of whiteness
Islam · Islamophobia · Political science · Prejudice (legal term · Race (biology · Racialization · Racism · Scholarship · Sociology · White (mutation · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
White Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States
The Racialization of Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism in the United States
Islam and the Blackamerican
Systemic Racism
Racial Formation in the United States
Black Identities
Racial Oppression in America
The racialization of Muslims in France and the United States
Retrieving the religion in racialization
Racialization and Muslims
Whiteness and culture
The inferior white
The Racialization of Islam in American Law
Rethinking Racism
The Origins and Demise of the Concept of Race
Racing Religion
Ethnoracism and the "Sandwiched" Minorities
Reinventing the Color Line Immigration and America's New Racial/Ethnic Divide
African American Islam
A Different Kind of Brown
Citizenship Denied
The Racialization of Muslim Converts in Britain and Their Experiences of Islamophobia
Ethnicity and Sexuality
Racial Formation in Perspective
Racialization
Moving beyond (and back to) the black-white binary
Racialization and racialization research
White privilege in the lives of Muslim converts in Britain
Racialization and religion
Stigmatized Identities
| Citations per year | 1.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |