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Between Society and the State: Gendered Racialization and Muslim Americans

ISBN: 978-1-78635-076-3, eISBN: 978-1-78635-075-6

Publication date: 14 April 2016

Abstract

This paper highlights the voices of some Muslim American women and identifies the processes of gendered racialization in a context of White supremacy. Informed by Rita Dhamoon’s (2011) intersectional “processes of differentiation” and interviews with 20 Muslim American women, we find gendered patterns of racial violence emanating from state and society. According to the interviews, the primary source of the racial violence against women is “society” while men are targeted in a complex configuration of state and society. We argue that this binary is a mirror of the gendered racialization process of maintaining White supremacy in the United States.

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the courageous women who participated in this study as well as the local mosques, community groups, and student associations who circulated our call for research participants. Due to safety precautions, we are unable to acknowledge these organizations by name. We also thank the anonymous reviewers of this manuscript. Hajer Al-Faham would like to extend a special thank to the following individuals for their unwavering support: Iftikar AlWadai and Dawood Al-Faham.

Citation

Al-Faham, H. and Ernst, R. (2016), "Between Society and the State: Gendered Racialization and Muslim Americans", Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 70), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 125-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-433720160000070011

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited