ABSTRACT

A liberal, state-sanctioned, ‘official’ antiracism structures academic and activist efforts to establish Islamophobia as a form of racism, as well as the conflict surrounding such efforts. This essay draws on ethnographic research with Black American Muslims in the US who hold a range of positions on Islamophobia: whether or not it is a useful way to conceptualize anti-Muslim practices, and – most controversially – whether or not the conceptualization itself is racist. Their views suggest that debates on the concept of Islamophobia and the violence to which it refers are refracted through not only US race politics but specifically through official antiracism, which is designed to support symbolic antiracisms and marginalize material antiracisms.

摘要

自由主义的、国家认可的、“官方的”反种族主义构建了学术和激进主义努力，以将仇视伊斯兰教作为种族主义的一种形式，以及围绕这种努力的冲突。本文借鉴了对美国黑人穆斯林的民族志研究，他们在伊斯兰恐惧症方面持有一系列立场：这是否是将反穆斯林做法概念化的有用方法，以及——最具争议的——概念化本身是否是种族主义. 他们的观点表明，关于伊斯兰恐惧症的概念及其所指的暴力的辩论不仅反映在美国的种族政治上，而且特别反映在官方的反种族主义中，旨在支持象征性的反种族主义并将物质反种族主义边缘化。