American Islamophobia : understanding the roots and rise of fear
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A critical race theorist and law professor, [the author] captures the many ways in which law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the frightening resurgence of Islamophobia in the United States ... from the plight of enslaved African Muslims in the antebellum South and the laws prohibiting Muslim immigrants from becoming citizens to the ways the war on terror assigns blame for any terrorist act to Islam and the myriad trials Muslim Americans face in the Trump era ... argu[ing] that by failing to frame Islamophobia as a system of bigotry endorsed and emboldened by law and carried out by government actors, U.S. society ignores the injury it inflicts on both Muslims and non-Muslims. Through the stories of Muslim Americans who have experienced Islamophobia across various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines, Beydoun shares how U.S. laws shatter lives, whether directly or inadvertently. And with an eye toward benefiting society as a whole, he recommends ways for Muslim Americans and their allies to build coalitions with other groups"--,Provided by publisher.

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