Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Conflation Of The Concepts Arab And Muslim

In the abstract, the work of Spivak, "Can The Subaltern Speak" is also helpful in theorizing this topic.  I'm constantly amazed at how we have formed opinions of people we don't see, hear, or even truly know.  We don't say, "the Christian terrorists who lynched Black men in post World War II south."  We don't say, "the Christian doctors who practiced involuntary sterilization on women such as Fannie Lou Hamer in 1950's Mississippi."  We don't do that at all.  But we ALWAYS identify the word 'terrorist' with the West's neo-contemporary Untouchables - Muslims.  While they remain, in definitive terms only, as an exemplar of Spivak's subaltern; a multitudinous unspoken minority indeed. 


La Vonda R. Staples

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Abdul Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> wrote:

The following essays are quite informative in understanding the conflation of the concepts Islam and Muslim:

 

Ahmed Sokarno Abdel-Hafiz. 2000. "The Representation of Islam, Arabs and Muslims...." International Journal of Communication 12, 2:103-117.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33946021/The-Representation-of-Islam-Arabs-and-Muslims-in-Newsweek-and-Time-Ahmed-Abdel-Hafiz

 

"Is the Life of the Muslim Arab and/or Muslim?"

http://teachmiddleeast.lib.uchicago.edu/historical-perspectives/writing-and-literature/islamic-period/framing-the-issues/issue-02.html

 

Nadine Nober. 2008. "'Look, Mohammed the Terrorist Is Coming!' Cultural Racism, Nation-Based Racism, and Intersectionality of Oppressions after 9/11." The Scholar and Feminist Online 6, 3.

http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/immigration/naber_03.htm

 

"Arab at ASU: Building Bridges."

http://www.statepress.com/2011/03/02/arab-at-asu-building-bridges/

 

M. Lo and Aman Nadhiri. 2010. "Contextualizing 'Muridiyyah' within the American Muslim Community." African Journal of Political Science and International Relations 4, 6:231-40.

www.academicjournals.org/ajpsir/PDF/.../Mbaye%20and%20Nadhiri.pdf

 

G. C. David. "Studying the xotic Other in the Classroom: The Portrayal of Arab..."

www2.hawaii.edu/~dasgupta/390S11/DavidAyoubyCurriculum.pdf

 

 

 

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