{"id":836,"date":"2018-11-05T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/?p=836"},"modified":"2018-11-05T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T20:16:11","slug":"spring-2019-courses-islam-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/religion\/2018\/11\/05\/spring-2019-courses-islam-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2019 Courses: Islam & Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW COURSE!<\/h1>\n
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Islam & Race is a new course in Religion <\/strong><\/div>\n
and counts toward University D1 requirements. <\/strong><\/div>\n
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Why this course? Why now?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Hate crimes are on the rise against every minority. We have seen calls to ban refugees, ban immigrants, and ban Muslims. We talk about countries as \u201cMuslim states.” When we hear \u201cMuslim\u201d we think \u201cterrorist.\u201d Many Sikh Americans who wear turbans are victims of anti-Muslim crimes.<\/div>\n
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All of these grim facts reflect a racialization of religion<\/i>\u2014a process that collapses many identities, ethnicities, languages, nationalities into one <\/i>overarching race<\/i>. We can\u2019t understand things like an uptick in hate crimes, how Sikhs are prominent victims of anti-Muslim violence, how whole countries can be seen as the same <\/i>as each other because of religion, how very different communities are seen as the same, <\/i>and\u00a0how\u00a0\u201cIslamophobia\u201d became real without<\/i> understanding how Islam and race are conflated, constructed, and operate.<\/div>\n
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COURSE DESCRIPTION<\/h2>\n
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Islam is not a race\u2014religions are not races\u2014but Islam and religions can and are racialized. In this course, we examine how Islam and Muslims (those who practice Islam) come to be seen as a cogent race. The racialization of Islam and Muslims is global, and in this course we will reference transnational and historical patterns of race, religion, and Islam, but we focus on North America to keep our scope maintainable. The course takes theoretical ideas (definitions of race and religion and the racialization of religion) and explores them in case studies related to Muslims\u2014and those imagined to be Muslims\u2014in North America. We explore notions of \u201cwhiteness,\u201d \u201cbrownness,\u201d and \u201cblackness\u201d as they play out for Muslims as well as Islamophobia, surveillance, and the category of \u201cMuslim\u201d itself. \u00a0This intermediate-level course asks questions about Islam and race in ways that are consistent with contemporary methods and theories of the study of religion and the study of race, preparing students to apply what they learn to other religion courses, other religious traditions, and in daily experiences of a world marked by religious and racial identifiers.<\/div>\n
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COURSE HIGHLIGHTS<\/h2>\n
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