Annotations on Race, Colonialism, Islamophobia, Islam, and Palestine
Author: Hatem Bazian
Publisher: Amrit Consultancy
Year of Publication: 2017
Print Length: 544 pages
Genre: Academic / Essay, Non-Fiction / Political Science
Area: Palestine, Middle East, The Levant, The United States of America (USA)
Topic: Palestine, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Decolonization & Anti-Colonization, Dehumanization, Islamophobia, Islam, Refugees & Forced Migration, Othering & Otherness, Politics & Power, Racism, Imperialism, Zionism, History, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide, Independence & Liberation, Peace, Social Justice, Solidarity, Trauma, Vulnerability
“A wonderful, splendid, erudite, accessible and entirely original book! In Hatem Bazian’s capable hands, this book offers its readers a decolonial map to navigate the difficult questions of our time. This is a tour de force in decolonial thought and Muslim decolonial politics of liberation! A must to read…” Ramon Grosfoguel, Associate Professor, Chicano / Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
“The veneer of post-racial America, the insistence on color blindness across Europe, the callous treatment of refugees and the brutalities inflicted on Muslims and Islam, all derive from lies perpetrated by the powerful (and the powerless) to perpetuate white supremacy. Dr. Hatem Bazian’s book reveals the truth – that the twisted roots of institutional racism, religious animosity and western arrogance are planted deeply in the fertile soil of the West; their legacies continue to shape our lives in the 21st century. Dr. Bazian describes their manifestations, their consequences and the sustained efforts to resist them, and maintain human dignity. This is a powerful set of essays, in vivid and compelling terms, that speaks to the most urgent matters of the 21st century.” Stephen Small, Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley
“A Timely read! Hatem Bazian has produced an insightful text that challenges racism, Islamophobia and Zionism and shows the linkages between these structural and systemic ideologies and practices, their damaging impact, and how to understand them in a clear, concise and accessible language to scholars and lay people alike. I strongly recommend Bazian’s book to anyone who seeks to gain a grasp of today’s politics, wars and resistance!” Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Race and Resistance Studies, San Francisco State University
Table of Contents
Part One: On race and racism
1. America’s open secret: racism and white supremacy / 2. Black History Month and dismantling Whiteness in ‘the Shining City Upon a Hill’ / 3. A racial moment: reflections on race, racism and resistance / 4. ‘What’s the matter boss, we sick?’ / 5. On Ferguson’s verdict, violence and colonial conditioning / 6. Michael Brown, racism and America’s open casket / 7. Michael Brown and America’s structural racism / 8. Police violence in America and compounded racism / 9. Confronting race in America! / 10. Death certificates in America – cause of death: “Being Black” /
11. Racism at the university: silence, indifference and culpability / 12. Flint: racism and water / 13. The clash of civilization: a racial discourse / 14. On burning churches and lynching! / 15. The mirage of White Victimhood / 16. From the human zoo to diversity initiatives / 17. Targeting Chinese-Americans is an old ploy! / 18. Remembering Muhammad Ali: “Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee”
Part Two: On colonialism, post colonialism and de-colonization
1. From expulsion to native genocide: Columbus’ voyage and forging the “New World”! / 2. Kill them all to rescue a dying colonialism / 3. Violence upon the mind: the constantly present colonial / 4. On military coups and post-colonialism / 5. Ramadan: a de-colonial centering moment / 6. Wither the Arabs / 7. Immigration crisis: the collapse of the post-colonial state, part 1 / 8. Immigration crisis: the collapse of the post-colonial state, part 2 / 9. Immigration crisis: the collapse of the post-colonial state, part 3 / 10. Immigration crisis: the collapse of the post-colonial state, part 4 /
11. Immigration crisis: the collapse of the post-colonial state, part 5 / 12. Europe, immigration and the post-colonial South / 13. A discourse on the colonized Muslim subject / 14. The ethical, moral economy and designing structural inequality / 15. The real big game and merchants of death / 16. Erasure of the human / 17. The refugee: the commodified human
Part Three: On Islamophobia and Muslim Otherness
1. Does Europe have an inquisition problem? / 2. Bosnian genocide and Islamophobia: marking and unmarking history / 3. American Muslims and the specter of fear / 4. Trump’s victory: intervention ghosts, globalization and Islamophobia! / 5. France’s Burkini Ban: the theater of the absurd ‘an outfit respecting good morals and secularism.’ / 6. Islamophobia: Israel’s last frontier to rescue its image! / 7. Islam is responsible mantra / 8. Islamophobia and women’s hijab in public space! / 9. CVE: Civilizational rehab programs for Muslims / 10. Islamophobia and the ballot box /
11. America is becoming more Islamophobic! / 12. Islamophobia and three evils of society / 13. Islamophobia is at a violent tipping point / 14. Ahmed’s arrest caused by bigotry and Islamophobia / 15. Islamophobia network: the fringe dominating the center / 16. When Islamophobia turns deadly / 17. North Carolina, Paris, Norway and reinforcing extremes / 18. Ahmed Merabet and Charlie Hebdo’s new cover: at whom are we poking fun? / 19. “No-Go-Zones” and No-Intelligence, an Islamophobia prerequisites / 20. Tunisian presidential elections and monetizing Islamophobia at the ballot box /
21. Trumpism: racist eggs and fascist omelets / 22. Latent and manifest Islamophobia: an inception of ideas / 23. The ‘randomness’ of Islamophobia at US airports / 24. Egypt, the ‘war on terrorism’ and Islamophobia / 25. Muslims bite puppies in Tahrir Square, puppies are rescued to America / 26. Trump and the collapse of neoliberal economic order!
Part Four: On Islam and Muslimness
1. The Souls of Muslim folk / 2. How does it feel to be a Muslim? / 3. Muslim intellectuals and America’s imperial project! / 4. The Muslim question / 5. The ‘terrorist’ designation game: a tool to consolidate power and saving Islam from Islam! / 6. “Islamic Reformation” and the West living in our minds / 7. Islam, reform and the “modern” rational / 8. The metaphysical and the crisis of spiritual materiality / 9. Orientalism, Palestine and covering Islam / 10. Embedded intellectuals: an ethical crisis /
11. Sunni Islamic authority between the text and context / 12. Religious authority, state power and revolutions / 13. ISIS beheading Islam through its actions! / 14. Islam in countering violent extremism / 15. On constitutions, Sharia and Muslim political thought / 16. Revising Al-Ghazali: revelation and reason! / 17. On Muslim toleration / 18. Books and reading in the Muslim world: a serious crisis / 19. Putting Humpty Dumpty together again! / 20. Climate change is a Muslim concern /
21. On sectarian violence in the Muslim world / 22. Islam vs. Islam: what is the way forward? / 23. Muslims and Arabs: free speech and the question of violence
Part Five: On Palestine, Zionism and interfaith discourse
1. Dismembering the Ottomans and colonizing Palestine / 2. The Nakba: Narrating the “Non-Existing” Palestinians into History! / 3. Always a land with people / 4. Restoring Palestine: six divergent visions / 5. Israel’s grand theft of Muslim endowments in Jerusalem / 6. The Palestinian cause and international law / 7. Al-Aqsa Mosque and Israel’s colonial bullying / 8. Intifada or not: occupation remains intact? / 9. Palestine’s wound / 10. Palestine, President Abbas and challenges in ending Oslo! /
11. Israeli racist settlers, burning toddlers and ‘price tag’ / 12. Israeli war crimes and bringing an end to impunity / 13. Gaza: The never-ending war crime / 14. Vatican’s recognition a signal of the global shift on Palestine statehood / 15. Breaking the silence on Israeli crimes in Gaza / 16. Should Israeli nuclear bombs be inspected? / 17. Netanyahu is dismantling peace an entrenching apartheid / 18. ‘Interfaith’ under occupation is normalization, not solidarity! / 19. “We Fight, Therefore We Are:” Zionism’s Epistemology / 20. The Balfour Declaration: Palestine’s British and Zionist colonial legacy /
21. Palestine: Toward a social justice based interfaith horizon / 22. Palestine, American Muslim leadership and assimilationist strategic math / 23. A license to kill: ‘Israel’s right to defend itself’ / 24. Western media: the clean-up crew for Israeli crimes / 25. Israel and the regional strategic landscape / 26. Why was Arafat killed? / 27. Palestine: toward a new era! / 28. Checkpoints on Palestine in academia / 29. Israel and BDS: assassinating an idea? / 30. American Muslims must not become tools of Israeli propaganda /
31. Shalom Hartman’s MLI Program – a constructive engagement paradigm / 32. Muslim leadership initiative and understanding BDS, Zionism and Israel / 33. The “Peace Process” and constructing a new cage for the Palestinians / 34. Napoleon, Obama and revisiting the Cairo speech
Index
Hatem Bazian is a Palestinian-American Muslim scholar. He is Provost and Professor at Zaytuna College, Editor-In-Chief of the Islamophobia Studies Journal and Lecturer in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies and Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
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