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Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz’s groundbreaking book demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century, Aziz explores the gap between America’s aspiration for and fulfillment of religious freedom. With America’s demographics rapidly changing from a majority white Protestant nation to a multiracial, multireligious society, this book is an in dispensable read for understanding how our past continues to shape our present—to the detriment of our nation’s future.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 356
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
30 November 2021
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520382299
Format: Paperback
“Thought-provoking.”
"The Racial Muslim is an important, timely addition to the literature on anti-Muslim racism. Aziz succinctly compresses a broad, yet relevant, range of topics into a relatively short text, all-the-while interrogating power, White supremacy, structural racism and the intersection of religion and race in racializing processes."
"From her law professor perspective with an interdisciplinary approach, Aziz’s work recalls that of Kimberley Crenshaw, in which juridical science is combined with social sciences to achieve change: indeed, her work is not limited to the analysis of society, but seeks as an ultimate goal, social justice."
"Aziz unravels and then connects America’s torrid history toward religious minorities."
"The book explicates narratives concerning Muslims’ inability to assimilate or that assert Islam is merely a political ideology and promotes tactics to abrogate religious liberty."
"The insights of this work culminate in a powerful analytic for understanding religious discrimination. This book is destined to have a long shelf life and an increase in influence, particularly as its main tenets are deployed to analyze religious repression in contexts beyond the United States." - Spear It, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.
"Professor Sahar Aziz’s book offers an illuminating account of the immigrant Muslim experience in the United States, but it does more than that. It provides readers with an opportunity to reflect on whether a narrative of race and racialization remains the most powerful way to understand proliferating differences in the United States." - Rachel F. Moran, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.
"The Racial Muslim is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the dynamics of race and how they intersect with religion. . . . essential reading for anyone concerned with racial and religious justice in the United States." - Natsu Taylor Saito, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.
Sahar Aziz is Professor of Law, Middle East Legal Scholar, and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School and Founding Director of the Center for Security, Race, and Rights.
Acknowledgments
Foreword by John L. Esposito
Introduction
1 • When American Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
2 • The Color of Religion
3 • Racialization of Jews, Catholics, and Mormons in the Twentieth Century
4 • From Protestant to Judeo-Christian National Identity: The Expansion of American Whiteness
5 • Social Construction of the Racial Muslim
6 • American Orientalism and the Arab Terrorist Trope
7 • Fighting Terrorism, Not Religion
8 • Officiating Islamophobia
9 • Criminalizing Muslim Identity
10 • The Future of the Racial Muslim and Religious Freedom in America
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Foreword by John L. Esposito
Introduction
1 • When American Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
2 • The Color of Religion
3 • Racialization of Jews, Catholics, and Mormons in the Twentieth Century
4 • From Protestant to Judeo-Christian National Identity: The Expansion of American Whiteness
5 • Social Construction of the Racial Muslim
6 • American Orientalism and the Arab Terrorist Trope
7 • Fighting Terrorism, Not Religion
8 • Officiating Islamophobia
9 • Criminalizing Muslim Identity
10 • The Future of the Racial Muslim and Religious Freedom in America
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index