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Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism (Muslim International) Paperback – April 19, 2022
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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.
Tracing how white subjects and majority-white nations in the post-9/11 era have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim, Razack examines four sites of anti-Muslim racism: efforts by American evangelical Christians to ban Islam in the school curriculum; Canadian and European bans on Muslim women’s clothing; racial science and the sentencing of Muslims as terrorists; and American national memory of the torture of Muslims during wars and occupations. Arguing that nothing has to make sense when the subject is Muslim, she maintains that these legal and cultural sites reveal the dread, phobia, hysteria, and desire that mark the encounter between Muslims and the West.
Through the prism of racism, Nothing Has to Make Sense argues that the figure of the Muslim reveals a world divided between the deserving and the disposable, where people of European origin are the former and all others are confined in various ways to regimes of disposability. Emerging from critical race theory, and bridging with Islamophobia/critical religious studies, it demonstrates that anti-Muslim racism is a revelatory window into the operation of white supremacy as a global force.
- Print length276 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
- Publication dateApril 19, 2022
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101517912350
- ISBN-13978-1517912352
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"Boldly and elegantly, Sherene H. Razack lays bare the affective, legal, and material worlds that protect white supremacy and anti-Muslim racism. Theoretically rigorous while highly accessible, Nothing Has to Make Sense is one of the most urgent books on anti-Muslim racism of our times and a must read for anyone looking for an unflinching analysis of race, class, gender, sexuality, and empire."—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago
"This is an essential text on race and racisms today, as well as the shifting language of white supremacy in Europe and North America, and their impact globally. We cannot understand the Global North without this timely and persuasive analysis of anti-Muslim affect as the link between Christianity, whiteness, and the colonial phantasms lurking in law and racial sciences. This is a crucial book for our times."—Inderpal Grewal, Yale University
About the Author
Sherene H. Razack is professor of gender studies and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in women’s studies at UCLA. She is author of Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody and Casting Out: Race and the Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics.
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- Publisher : University of Minnesota Press (April 19, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 276 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1517912350
- ISBN-13 : 978-1517912352
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,623,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #567 in Civil Rights Law (Books)
- #704 in Islamic Social Studies
- #5,688 in Discrimination & Racism
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