Orientalist truth about racial difference was radical and ineradicable
Evidence
Critical race theorists call this process “racialization,” and contend that “races are not biologically differentiated groupings but rather social constructions.” Races, and racial categories, therefore, are fluid and dynamic constructs that are shaped and reshaped in line with political, economic, and cultural interests. In line with this process of racialization, Orientalism (re)made “Muslim” into a race. This conversion of Muslim identity from a religion into a race changed a diverse population represented in every corner of the globe to the narrow form of the Arab, or as stated by Islamophobia scholar Erik Love, anybody “who looks Middle Eastern.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 161 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Orientalist doctrine attributes untruthfulness to a racialized Oriental mind; Racial homogeneity assumptions enabled sweeping claims about the ‘Muslim mind’ — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 126; Orientalism converted Muslim identity from a religion into a race. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 161 (+3 more)
Related
- Orientalist doctrine attributes untruthfulness to a racialized Oriental mind (similarity 0.92)
- Orientalist scholarship conflates Muslims and Jews into one racial type (similarity 0.92)
- Orientalism converted Muslim identity from a religion into a race. (similarity 0.91)
- Orientalism imagined Muslims as a monolithic Arab or Middle Eastern racial bloc. (similarity 0.89)
- Even anti-racist Orientalists held fixed cultural essences for the racialized (similarity 0.89)
- Said persistently conflates claims about the essence of Oriental racial identity with claims about the essence of Islamic religious doctrine, so a critique of racial essentialism does not easily… (similarity 0.89)
- Racial homogeneity assumptions enabled sweeping claims about the ‘Muslim mind’ (similarity 0.88)
- Orientalist dissenters defended Islam’s internal diversity against essentializing stereotypes (similarity 0.87)
- Orientalist scholarship varied internally but shared the racial category (similarity 0.86)
- Orientalist civilizational essentialism is a pillar of race making (similarity 0.85)
- The Middle East itself is a product of Orientalist construction. (similarity 0.85)
- Islamic culture seemed monolithically tyrannical to Southey (similarity 0.85)
- American officials read educated Muslims as a racially distinct civilized breed apart. (similarity 0.85)
- Islamic Orientalism resisted internal critique while cognate fields engaged it. (similarity 0.84)
- Racialized ‘national mind’ discourse survives only for Islam and Arabs (similarity 0.84)
Broader Connections
- Orientalist doctrine attributes untruthfulness to a racialized Oriental mind
#corroborates(0.85) - Orientalism converted Muslim identity from a religion into a race.
#expands(0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 161 - Empiricist assumptions locked Orientals into unescapable determining origins
#corroborates(0.82) - Racial homogeneity assumptions enabled sweeping claims about the ‘Muslim mind’
#expands(0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 126 - Orientalist civilizational essentialism is a pillar of race making
#corroborates(0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1277