“Birtherism” and Anti-Blackness: The Anti-Islamic Ante-Life of Africanized Slavery
The first black President of the United States, Barack Obama, entered office on a wave of racial optimism. But rather than transcending the United States’ racialized history, Obama's presidency has in a sense “outed” it, exposing this history's anti-Islamic origins. This article establishe...
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2017]
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| Dans: |
Political theology
Année: 2017, Volume: 18, Numéro: 8, Pages: 709-729 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Blancs
/ Racisme
/ Noirs
/ Anti-islamisme
/ Esclaves
/ Histoire 1444-2017
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| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam CC Christianisme et religions non-chrétiennes; relations interreligieuses KAA Histoire de l'Église NBE Anthropologie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
birtherism
B Islam B Supersessionism B White Supremacy B anti-blackness |
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| Résumé: | The first black President of the United States, Barack Obama, entered office on a wave of racial optimism. But rather than transcending the United States’ racialized history, Obama's presidency has in a sense “outed” it, exposing this history's anti-Islamic origins. This article establishes a link between anti-blackness and the Islamophobic reaction to his election: late medieval and early modern European Christians could classify newly Africanized peoples as uniquely and ontologically enslaveable only because they previously had imagined Muslims as such. |
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| Description: | Das Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 18 Numbers 7-8 November-December 2017" |
| ISSN: | 1462-317X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2017.1335534 |