Muslims wear a ‘racial uniform’ imposed by racialized notions of Islam

Evidence

On Robert Park and colleagues’ concept of the ‘‘racial uniform’’ as part of a racialized body in relation to social distance, assimilation, and accommodation, see Yu 2001. Rather than strictly dismissing this approach as victimizing, I invert these terms to understand the racial uniform as imposed in relation to racialized notions of Islam and the Muslim body. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 932

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Robert Park’s ‘racial uniform’ concept and the author’s inversion — the uniform as externally imposed rather than self-assumed.
• XREF: connects to: European veil bans rest on cultural racism casting Islam as premodern — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 313