Racialization and religion: race, culture and difference in the study of antisemitism and Islamophobia

Racism, Crisis, Brexit

“…Such representations and narratives acquired traction in everyday life because they dovetailed so neatly with long-standing repertoires of negatively evaluated representations accompanying the on-going racialization of the figure of the Muslim (Meer 2012). That is, while many believed the focus of the UKIP-inspired Brexiteer's ire was mainly white Europeans from the mainland undercutting British workers, it was clear to many within that formation itself that breaking with the EU and "taking back control of our borders" also represented an important opportunity to limit the numbers of Muslims entering Britain, Muslims whose culture many of them believed was incompatible with being British.…”

Breaking black: the death of ethnic and racial studies in Britain

“…18 At the same time, and ironically, it can also be argued that the growth of the field has also led to its fragmentation and dilution, with the proliferation of inter-and intra-disciplinary subfields, study groups, conferences, forums and which, increasingly, speak only to each other and no longer speak across areas of shared concern. So we have the explosion of work on migration which seems to believe, with UKIP, that it is possible to talk about migration without race (Schuster 2010); on religion and Islamophobia, which, with the notable exception of Meer (2013), sees this as distinct from racism (Alexander 2017); the empty empiricisms of superdiversity (Vertovec 2007;; human rights (Nash 2015), refugee studies (Schuster 2010), and some strands of urban studies (Knowles 2010;Millington 2011;Hall 2013) which place race and racism as wallpaperthe acknowledged but unscrutinized backdrop to more pressing and, perhaps, more engaging theoretical, empirical and political issues. And of coursebecause this is Britain after allthe resurrection of inequality research which is actually class research and, in which, if it appears at all, race and ethnicity is an inconvenient complication, acknowledged in passing and then ignored (Skeggs 2004;Savage 2015), or in which "white" is appended to "working class" as an alibi for, or disclaimer of, racial privilege and racism (Mckenzie 2015;see Bottero 2009;Gillborn 2009 for critiques of this position).…”

From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question. Republican Rigorism, Culturalist Differentialism and Antinomies of Enforced Emancipation

“…Second, by showing how a common philosophical and political underpinning lies underneath both the Jewish Question and the Muslim Question, it provides tools for deepening current debates on the common roots of antisemitism and Islamophobia, which have begun to attract increasing scholarly attention. 10 Third, by adopting Marx's line of critique against Bauer's secularist anti-Jews position in addressing the French law on conspicuous religious symbols, it explores the possibilities of an anti-racist perspective that incorporates a non-reductionist Marxist political-economic framework.…”