British Islamophobia mobilizes race thinking that admits Muslims formally yet excludes them

Evidence

In Britain, with its much longer history of contact with Muslim peoples—including the experience derived from colonialism—a willed historical amnesia fed by politicians and the media prevents a more nuanced understanding of Islam, its different strains and multiple histories. We see instead something much closer to what Sherene Razack, borrowing from Hannah Arendt, terms “race thinking,” where prejudice becomes naturalized in the interests of existing social relations via phrases such as “British values,” indicating kinship and common origins, to which the Muslim “outsider” is required to adhere but from whose “insider” benefits he or she is always excluded. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 41

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘race thinking’ (Razack via Arendt): prejudice naturalized through kinship and common-origin rhetoric like ‘British values’ that admits the outsider formally while excluding them substantively.
• XREF: This insider-outsider exclusion maps directly onto Changez’s experience in The Reluctant Fundamentalist — admitted to Princeton and America, never an insider.
• QUESTION: Is this inclusion-then-exclusion structure precisely the mechanism contesting-novels expose by staging bilingual/narrative address?