Sacralized politics racializes others to make their rights violatable
Evidence
Sacralized politics, we argue, depends upon particular racialized narrations that frame some as Others, confining them in spaces of difference – legally, culturally, and politically. Racialization, in this case, is an ongoing process reflected in structural relations of power, producing and maintaining the self and the Other – be it the non-Jew, non- Hindu, etc. – whose political rights can then be framed as violatable. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 107
The deployment of racialized discourses of sacredness and its religious distinctions are there to reaffirm the politics of religious exclusivity. Sacralized politics, we argue, depends upon particular racialized narrations that frame some as Others, confining them in spaces of difference – legally, culturally, and politically. Racialization, in this case, is an ongoing process reflected in structural relations of power, producing and maintaining the self and the Other – be it the non-Jew, non- Hindu, etc. – whose political rights can then be framed as violatable. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 107
Categorization
- XREF: Supplies the mechanism by which a sacred external enemy (‘Other’) is constructed — feeding the manufactured-enemy sustaining-solidarity hypothesis. — connects to: Racialization shifts with the political interests of those in power — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 86; Embedded race thinking makes suspension of rights look like law; Racial legislation could reduce rights while invoking freedoms (+11 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 107
Broader Connections
- Racializing Muslims as political ideologues neutralizes religious freedom protections
#exemplifies(0.90) - Embedded race thinking makes suspension of rights look like law
#expands(0.85) - Race operates as a political theology underpinning sacrifice of groups
#corroborates(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1883 - Racial legislation could reduce rights while invoking freedoms
#exemplifies(0.80) - Zionism conflates Palestinian rights advocacy with antisemitism through racialized stereotypes
#exemplifies(0.80) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 22 - Racialization shifts with the political interests of those in power
#expands(0.78) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 86 - Racial exclusion becomes legally unactionable once reframed as private moral preference
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1875 - Rights to property and speech double as markers of racial incapacity.
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 79 - Human rights rhetoric masks imperial assumptions that racialize colonized peoples
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