Pride and prejudice: the context of reception for Muslims in the United States

Bulut, Elif

doi:10.1080/21582041.2016.1176243

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“…The other side of this experience are public attitudes to minorities that influence their experiences. Bulut's (2016) review of prejudice towards Muslims shines an interesting light on the basis for such attitudes. She reveals that, contrary to commonly held views, widespread negative attitudes towards Muslims are not based on fear of violence in the wake of terrorist attacks, notably those of 9/11, but rather the view that the American way of life is the best and any sub-culture that is different from that is a threat to the traditional American values.…”

Section: Crime As a Reflection Of Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Crime and society

Canter

Youngs

2016

Contemporary Social Science

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Much of society's resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hints at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of social activity crime is an integrated aspect of societal processes. As an introduction to this themed issue of Contemporary Social Science, a brief review is undertaken of some of the direct and indirect social impacts of criminality, proposing that this is worthwhile, not just in terms of understanding crime but also because of how it elucidates more general social considerations. A range of studies that examine the interactions between crime and society are brought together drawing on a wide range of countries and cultures, India, Israel, Nigeria, Turkey and the USA, as well as Britain and Ireland. They include contributions from many different social science disciplines, which complement each other. Taken together the 11 papers reviewed do demonstrate that the implicit and direct impact of crime is very widespread indeed.

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Section: Crime As a Reflection Of Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Crime and society

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Youngs

2016

Contemporary Social Science

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The Criminalization of Muslims in the United States, 2016

Kaufman

2019

Qual Sociol

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The criminalization of Muslims-framing an Islamic religious identity as a problem to be solved using state crime control logic-is undeniably in process in the United States. Local, state, and federal statutes target Muslims for surveillance and exclusion, and media sources depict Muslims as synonymous with terrorism, as others have shown. This paper analyzes the public's role in the criminalization of Islam, which I call "cr-Islamization." Drawing on in-depth, qualitative interviews in a major Southwest city during the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, I detail how the majority of 144 politically, racially, and economically diverse interviewees talk about Muslims as a potential "racial threat," using "fear of crime" language indicative of the mass incarceration era. This suggests that criminalization theory should be central to sociological studies of Muslims in the contemporary United States, and that criminalization rhetoric remains powerful, despite mainstream enthusiasm for criminal justice reform. I argue that criminalization's power might reside in its ability to mutate in the "post-racial" era. The mechanisms supporting crimmigration, the criminalization of black Americans, and cr-Islamization are related but not identical. Muslims are religiously and racially subjugated, but more economically secure compared to other criminalized groups. This paper's findings should prompt scholars to re-examine the relationships between racialization, criminalization, religious subjugation, and economic exploitation in the twenty-first century United States.

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Devout Muslims or tough highlanders? Exploring attitudes toward ethnic nationalism and racism in Europe’s ethnic-Chechen Salafi communities

Souleimanov

Schwampe

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Pride and prejudice: the context of reception for Muslims in the United States

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Crime and society

Crime and society

The Criminalization of Muslims in the United States, 2016

Devout Muslims or tough highlanders? Exploring attitudes toward ethnic nationalism and racism in Europe’s ethnic-Chechen Salafi communities

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