Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism
Sherene H. Razack, "Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism "
English | ISBN: 1517912350 | 2022 | 276 pages | EPUB | 675 KB
English | ISBN: 1517912350 | 2022 | 276 pages | EPUB | 675 KB
How Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world
While much has been written about post-9/11 anti-Muslim racism (often termed Islamophobia), insufficient attention has been given to how anti-Muslim racism operates through law and is a vital part of law’s protection of whiteness. This book fills this gap while also providing a unique new global perspective on white supremacy. Sherene H. Razack, a leading critical race and feminist scholar, takes an innovative approach by situating law within media discourses and historical and contemporary realities. We may think of law as logical, but, argues Razack, its logic breaks down when the subject is Muslim.
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