Studying Anglo-American Islamophobia requires deliberately excluding South Asian perspectives

Evidence

Third, we note that a focus on British perspectives in India should not suggest that South Asians did not have their own views, that they did not differ from Britons’, or that they simply subsumed their understandings to British ones. Earlier scholarship has demonstrated the significant and changing dynamics of interaction and representation between many of the myriad groups of the subcontinent both preceeding and during British rule. However, our particular endeavor to track the shared heritage and divergent expressions of Anglo-American Islamophobia mandates the exclusion of these voices. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 102

Categorization

• QUESTION: Deliberately excluding subaltern voices to track a ‘shared heritage’ — is this framing itself a suspect move the reader should interrogate, given the project’s critique?