Dr. Sherene H. Razack is a Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in the Department of Gender Studies, UCLA. She is an interdisciplinary critical race and feminist scholar whose work engages several fields including Sociology, Legal Studies, Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, American Studies and Political Science.
Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism
While much has been written about post-9/11 anti-Muslim racism, insufficient attention has been given to how anti-Muslim racism operates through law and is a vital part of law’s protection of whiteness. We may think of law as logical, but, argues Razack, its logic breaks down when the subject is Muslim.
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