“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...
| Published in: | Political theology |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2017]
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| In: |
Political theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 18, Issue: 8, Pages: 709-729 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Whites
/ Racism
/ Blacks
/ Islamophobia
/ Slave trade
/ History 1444-2017
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| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAA Church history NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
birtherism
B Islam B Supersessionism B White Supremacy B anti-blackness |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Das Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 18 Numbers 7-8 November-December 2017" |
| ISSN: | 1462-317X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2017.1335534 |