CIARS in Conversation Ep. 2 Anti-Muslim Racism Beyond Islamophobia: Examining the intersections of Anti-Blackness and Anti-Muslim Racism

Anti-Muslim racism has had a sustained presence pre-dating September 11th, 2001, with heightened discrimination afterward, fueled by ongoing refugee crises, cultural imperialism, and the global ‘War on Terror.’ In its current form, anti-Muslim racism continues to intersect with multiple identity markers both within the Muslim community and across the political landscape of fear. With unprecedented public attention toward followers of Islam through media coverage and policies promoting religious repression, gendered and racialized Muslims are disproportionately affected by police violence and repressive “counter-terrorism” surveillance models.

This month’s CIARS In Conversation engages in key conversations pertaining to:

• Examining the multiple and intersectional nature of Muslim identities, alongside the role Islam takes in shaping discourses, social change, and daily practices.
• Understanding and addressing the historical and present-day manifestations of anti-Muslim racism within national and international geo-spaces.
• Unpacking the compounding experiences of being Muslim and Black and how this speaks to the intersections of anti-Muslim racism and anti-Blackness resulting in the absentation of Muslim Black communities.