The Racial Muslim

Sahar Aziz is Professor of Law, Middle East Legal Scholar, and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University Law School and Founding Director of the Center for Security, Race, and Rights.

Acknowledgments
Foreword by John L. Esposito

Introduction
1 • When American Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
2 • The Color of Religion
3 • Racialization of Jews, Catholics, and Mormons in the Twentieth Century
4 • From Protestant to Judeo-Christian National Identity: The Expansion of American Whiteness
5 • Social Construction of the Racial Muslim
6 • American Orientalism and the Arab Terrorist Trope
7 • Fighting Terrorism, Not Religion
8 • Officiating Islamophobia
9 • Criminalizing Muslim Identity
10 • The Future of the Racial Muslim and Religious Freedom in America
Conclusion

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