Anti-Muslim racism is produced across intersecting institutional spheres, not by any single source

Evidence

The conclusion brings together my arguments in the book through a map that I call the “matrix of anti-Muslim racism,” which outlines how various spheres—the foreign policy establishment, the security apparatus, think tanks, the academy—produce Islamophobia. Like Policing the Crisis, this book takes a multifocal approach to understanding race and racism. In addition to the legal, police, and media domains discussed in Policing the Crisis, I study knowledge production, particularly knowledge that informs policy, and the practices of the national security state. Dominant constructions of racialized others are best understood, I argue, as the product of multiple intersecting spheres and the complex ideologies and practices that emerge from them. I discuss how the mainstream media, as well as right-wing and progressive media, are the staging grounds on which various forms of Islamophobia—liberal, conservative, reactionary—are articulated and contested. Significantly, both rightand left-wing social movements vie for hegemony within the imperial matrix. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 90

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘matrix of anti-Muslim racism’ framework, defining how knowledge production and security state practices shape racialized constructions.

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