Islamophobia: Where Race Meets Religion
April 21, 2011 at 3:15 in the Kellogg Center at Michigan State University
This panel analyzes how public discourse on Muslims, marked by a tendency to represent Islam as a menacing and anti-democratic force in the world, has served to underwrite state policies and actions that circumscribe the rights of Muslim Americans
Mohammed Ayoob (MSU), Chair
Austin Jackson (MSU), “African American Muslims and Political Islam.”
Saeed Khan (MSU/Wayne State), “Islamophobia within the Backdrop of the US Culture Wars: Arizona, Prop 8 and the ‘Browning’ of America.”
Zareena Grewal (Yale), “An Exceptual Umma? Recalibrating Race in US Mosques”
Salah D. Hassan (MSU), “Death of an Imam: The FBI Shooting of Luqman Ameen Abdullah”
This panel is sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program and is being held as part of the 2011 Race in the 21st Century conference.