Racing the Muslim: Strategies for Teaching Race and Ethnic Studies in the Education Curriculum

Thangaraj, Stanley

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“…By doing so, mosque sermons become a vehicle for promoting positive self-esteem and Islamic identity, leading to a more cohesive and enlightened Muslim community. 28…”

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Islamization: A Sociological Approach

Rahman

2024

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"Islamisation: A Sociological Approach" intricately explores the processes of cultivating an Islamic society. It delves into the interplay between individual and systemic transformations, aligning with Islamic doctrines. The meticulous examination includes integrating Islamic principles into societal frameworks, exploring social psychology, human soul cognition, schema control, behavioral modifications, community dynamics, and emotional management. The discourse spans foundational Islamisation aspects to constructing persuasive models, emphasizing the need for narratives resonating across the Islamic realm. The treatise addresses fostering uniformity in Islamic governance, focusing on human motivation, informational conformity, and aligning Islamic values with modern technologies. Contemplating the future trajectory, it juxtaposes scientific advancements with philosophical reflections, acknowledging challenges posed by conflicting secular liberal ideologies. The text highlights social media and educational initiatives' pivotal roles in nurturing close-knit Muslim community relationships. In conclusion, it underscores the necessity of managing cognitive schemas and mitigating extreme psychological reactance in Islamic societies, advocating for a harmonious blend of punitive measures and core Islamic values, contributing significantly to the discourse on contemporary Islamisation.

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“…By doing so, mosque sermons become a vehicle for promoting positive self-esteem and Islamic identity, leading to a more cohesive and enlightened Muslim community. 28…”

Section: Mosque Sermons As a Platform For Enlightenmentmentioning

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Islamization: A Sociological Approach

Rahman

2024

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“…From their early arrival in Nashville in the late 1970s, Kurds have been racialized as the "Arab" and "Iranian" Other because of the 1970s oil embargo and the Iranian hostage crisis (Maghbouleh 2017;Naber 2012). The US nation-state's discourse of recognition is premised on its racial categories, and the racial ambiguity of Kurds lead to their racialization as "Arabs" when they cannot fit within the categories of Black or white (Bow 2010;Thangaraj 2015Thangaraj , 2021. Diyar explained, "[The discrimination] really started on '79, after Khomeini's problems with the American hostages.…”

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“We share the same ancestry”: US Kurdish diasporas and the aspirational and ascriptive practices of race

Thangaraj

2022

American Anthropologist

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The conflating of the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region with Arabs is a common trope that also governs how we study West Asia and West Asian diasporas in the United States. I ethnographically highlight the lives of Kurds in mainly Nashville, Tennessee, and the northeastern United States while foregrounding their racial aspirations that disrupt essentialized depictions of the SWANA region and challenge the nation-state's racial ascriptions. The use of the "Indo-European" language family as racial classification in opposition to Arabs, the quotidian practices of racializing Kurds through the "Muslim-looking" racial formation, and the everyday forms of solidarity with Arab Americans during this period of the global war on terror provide traction on the ways the ascriptions of race and aspirations to race influence Kurdish identity formation. Through evocations of "Indo-European-ness," Kurdish Americans conceptualize transnational and transhistorical forms of whiteness/Europeanness/Aryan-ness and racialized difference from Arabs, offer critiques of nation-states, and accentuate dynamic forms of racial consciousness. Kurds simultaneously engage with ethnological understandings that are naturalized as racial difference at the very moment they must also manage the racial hysteria post-9/11. With increased xenophobia and Islamophobia, Kurds challenge their racializations by embracing nonwhiteness that opens possibilities for coalition-building with Arab Americans and various racial "Others."race, language families, anthropology of the United States, Aryan-ness, Kurdish diaspora RESUMENEl fusionar la región de SWANA con los árabes es un tropo común que también gobierna cómo estudiamos Asia Occidental y las diásporas de Asia Occidental en los Estados Unidos. Enfatizo etnográficamente las vidas de los kurdos en Nashville, Tennessee y el noreste de los Estados Unidos principalmente, mientras resaltando sus aspiraciones raciales que interrumpen las representaciones esencializadas de la región de SWANA y reta las adscripciones raciales del Estado-nación. El uso de la familia de lenguas "indoeuropeas" como una clasificación racial en oposición a los árabes, las prácticas cotidianas de racialización de los kurdos a través de la formación racial "de aspecto musulmán", y las formas cotidianas de solidaridad con los árabes americanos durante este período de guerra global contra el terrorismo proveen tracción en las formas en que las adscripciones de raza y aspiraciones a la raza influyen la 104

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Ethnic Studies: From Counternarrative to Curriculum

Kolluri

Edwards

2022

Urban Rev

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Racing the Muslim: Strategies for Teaching Race and Ethnic Studies in the Education Curriculum

Cited by 5 publications

References 83 publications

Islamization: A Sociological Approach

Islamization: A Sociological Approach

“We share the same ancestry”: US Kurdish diasporas and the aspirational and ascriptive practices of race

Ethnic Studies: From Counternarrative to Curriculum

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