Islam functions for Muslims today as race did for black males in the 1970s

Evidence

Since 9/11 therefore, a ‘problem’ with Islam and Muslims has become apparent at both the local and global levels, so as ‘race’ became the lens through which the crisis was understood in the 1970s, so ‘Islam’ has become the lens through which contemporary crises have become understood: Islam being to Muslims what race was to black males. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 814

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the chapter’s core analogical definition: Islam operates as a thematising, mobilising signifier in the same structural role race played for black communities.
• XREF: connects to: African American Muslims experience racialized religion differently due to distinct history — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 478; Comparing Muslims to blacks erases that African Americans are the largest American-born Muslim group; Racism has empirical grounding that Islamophobia still lacks — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 789

Related

• Islamophobia operates as entrenched American race politics producing anti-Muslim racism (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobia is rarely analyzed through the lens of race and racism. (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobia is best understood as an ideology akin to racism (similarity 0.85)
• Islam has functionally become a race in law within the last twenty years (similarity 0.85)
• Islam’s racial function shifts with changing Muslim demographics. (similarity 0.85)
• Islamophobia predates its neologism as a racism tied to the history of race (similarity 0.84)
• Understanding discrimination against Muslims requires analyzing race and religion together (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia and racial prejudice are entangled in distinct ways across Western contexts (similarity 0.84)
• Anti-Muslim racism cannot be understood only through recent U.S. racial formations (similarity 0.84)
• Islamophobia fixates a reified Muslim type despite race’s dynamic nature. (similarity 0.84)
• The term Islamophobia understates the racial and political roots of anti-Muslim bias (similarity 0.84)
• Islam itself constitutes a race produced by Islamophobic racecraft. (similarity 0.84)
• Targeting and dialectical resistance have made Islam function as a race. (similarity 0.84)
• Islam is ideologically expelled from religion itself in its racialization (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Comparing Muslims to blacks erases that African Americans are the largest American-born Muslim group #complicates (0.80)
• Racism has empirical grounding that Islamophobia still lacks #qualifies (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 789
• African American Muslims experience racialized religion differently due to distinct history #qualifies (0.72) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 478