Anti-racist Muslim American writing draws censorship while imperial apologia is celebrated

Evidence

Meanwhile, Moustafa Bayoumi came under attack for the use of How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? in classes for “force feeding” students with only “one point of view.” Racism thrives and is promoted, anti-racism is attacked. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 703

Categorization

• SEED: A rich angle: the asymmetry of who is deemed ‘one point of view’ in US classrooms — an exile bestseller evangelizing a hard line is pluralism, while a book centering actual Muslim American voices is propaganda.
• XREF: connects to: Elite literary institutions normalized grotesque anti-Muslim propaganda — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and…, 191; Moderate-sounding exiled writers gain media access and reinforce anti-Muslim racism; Diversity rhetoric leaves empire-directed structural anti-Muslim racism untouched — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 44 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Elite literary institutions normalized grotesque anti-Muslim propaganda #corroborates (0.80) — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 191
• Moderate-sounding exiled writers gain media access and reinforce anti-Muslim racism #corroborates (0.78)
• Diversity rhetoric leaves empire-directed structural anti-Muslim racism untouched #qualifies (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 44
• Sami, a Muslim American soldier, publicly opposed Bush’s Iraq war and religious rhetoric. #exemplifies (0.75) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 291
• Arab and Muslim American artists form a counterpublic unsettling mainstream representations #contradicts (0.72) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1394