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The struggle for recognition: Muslim American spokesmanship in the age of Islamophobia
[Thesis]
Nazia Kazi
Crapanzano, Vincent
City University of New York
2014
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Committee members: Davis, Dana-Ain; Kumar, Deepa; Maskovsky, Jeff
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-29576-4
Ph.D.
Anthropology
City University of New York
2014
The events of 9/11/2001 intensified the hypervisibility of U.S. Muslims, making them the subject of academic, artistic, and cultural curiosity. Alongside this public hypervisibility came a campaign of institutionalized Islamophobia, manifest in such measures as the anti-Muslim legislation of the USA PATRIOT Act. The result for Islamic Representative Organizations (or IRO's) was that combatting Islamophobia became a central concern. In this dissertation, I consider the multifaceted and complicated politics of representation used by IRO's in the aftermath of 9/11. I consider both the negative, or Islamophobic, and the so-called positive, or Islamophilic, representations of U.S. Muslims in the discourse of these groups. Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork at IRO events dealing with the subject of 'Islam in America', this dissertation addresses the racial, class-based, and cultural politics of representing U.S. Muslims. I consider the aspirations and ambitions of IRO members: Do they understand their anti-Islamophobia activism as a way to include Muslims in the existing social order, or do they imagine themselves engaged in a revolutionary process of transformation? I present ethnographic data that reveals IRO members imagining the United States as at once a pluralistic, diverse, and egalitarian nation and a foundationally racist, imperial formation. Hardly uniform, IRO representations reveal both transformative, counterhegemonic processes and a deeply entrenched neoliberal multiculturalism that is constitutive of the paradox of representation in the age of empire.
Cultural anthropology
Social sciences;Empire;Islamophilia;Islamophobia;Race
Chrifi Alaoui, Fatima Zahrae
Crapanzano, Vincent
Anthropology
City University of New York
1631658029; 3642571
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[Thesis]
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