Deck 46: Racialization of Muslims

Question 1

Selod and Embrick explain that religious identities were used to organize people into hierarchies in Europe______ racial identities were used to organize people into hierarchies in Europe.

A) before
B) at around the same time as
C) after
D) less often than

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The authors explain that the term "purity of ______" was used to differentiate between "true" Christians and Jews, Muslims, and Christian converts.

A) ancestry
B) mind
C) blood
D) soul

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The authors argue that the creation of the Muslim as the "other" should be examined within the context of ______ scholarship.

A) media
B) religion
C) sex and gender
D) race

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Selod and Embrick contend that the concept of racialization should ______.

A) privilege biological definitions of race
B) be tied to phenotype or pigmentation
C) omit discussions of phenotype or pigmentation
D) include how ideological and cultural signifiers acquire racial meanings

Question 5

According to the authors, which of the following is true of Muslims and race?

A) Muslims are a racially monolithic group.
B) Muslim Arabs are more likely than Christian Arabs to consider themselves White.
C) Muslims are members of many existing racial groups.
D) Attempts to study Muslims using a racial framework are futile.

Question 6

The authors consider the term ______ problematic because it emphasizes attitudes rather than discriminatory actions.

A) racism
B) Islamophobia
C) racialization
D) prejudice

Question 7

The authors explain that Muslim men are ______.

A) seen as potential terrorists
B) targets for verbal abuse by the public
C) viewed as cultural threats
D) easily identifiable as Muslim

Question 8

The authors explain that Muslim women are ______.

A) seen as potential terrorists
B) targets for verbal abuse by the public
C) viewed as national threats
D) criminalized

Question 9

Muslim women have been treated as a ______ threat, whereas Muslim men have been treated as a ______ threat.

A) national; cultural
B) cultural; national
C) ethnic; racial
D) racial; ethnic

Question 10

Which of the following points do Selod and Embrick make in their discussion of the work of anthropologist Junaid Rana?

A) Rana's research succeeds in moving beyond a homogenous understanding of Muslim experiences.
B) Rana's research fails to show how Muslim male immigrant's bodies are racialized as terrorists.
C) Rana's research does not contribute to studies on racialization.
D) Rana's research does not address how all immigrants are assigned a racial category when they arrive in the United States.

Question 11

The authors explain that non-Christian society was placed in two different categories following the expulsion of the Ummayad dynasty from Spain. What were those categories? How were Muslims categorized? How were Muslims treated?

Question 12

Why do Selod and Embrick prefer Miles' application of the concept of racialization?

Question 13

What did Shyrock's 2008 analysis of the 2003 Detroit Area Arab Study (DAAS) reveal?

Question 14

How do Muslim men and Muslim women experience racialization in different ways because of their gender?

Question 15

What critiques do the authors make of the work of anthropologist Junaid Rana, who has engaged in scholarship relating to the racialization of Muslims?