Double consciousness makes Muslim leaders adopt the good-bad Muslim frame
Evidence
Sadly, various Muslim groups have accepted this moniker of “good Muslim.” In a deeply racist society, oppressed groups, through a process that W. E. B. Du Bois calls “double consciousness,” come to see themselves through dominant categories. Thus, as Zareena Grewal writes, “Muslim Americans leaders-turned spokespeople affirm their positive identification with the US as good, flag-waving citizens, identifying Islam in terms of normative definitions of a good religion and claiming a space in the cultural mainstream through the disavowal and identification of bad Muslims and bad Islam.” — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 729
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Du Bois’s double consciousness mechanism applied to contemporary Muslim Americans — cross-domain import that could extend the reader’s own comparative analysis of co-opted elites under different regimes.
Related
- Oppressed groups internalize dominant categories and police their own members to gain acceptance (similarity 0.80)
- Good and bad Muslim labels encode imperial hierarchy and shift easily (similarity 0.78)