Muslim American Cyber Contestations between Scholars and Activists Debating Racism, Islamophobia and Black Lives Matter

Latif Jibril
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Over the last half-century, African Americans have been supplanted as the representational face of Islam in America by an immigrant population they initially perceived as obsequious to power and unconcerned with seeking redress to their historical grievances. Recently, however, a widespread cognizance of this strategic miscalculation coupled with the precipitous rise of Islamophobia in the Trump era has younger descendants of Muslim immigrants identifying with the left, combating Islamophobia as a type of racism in intersectional solidarity with other social justice platforms like the Black Lives Matter movement ( BLM ). Thus, when fundamental disagreements emerged at the RIS conference in late 2016 over endorsing the non-profit BLM entity, they sparked robust social media debates. This paper analyzes those inter-communal negotiations as they played out on the Facebook pages of Muslim scholars, associating discourse models with contestations of community members negotiating the boundaries involved with integrating the heterogeneous discourses of antiracism.
美国穆斯林学者和活动家之间的网络辩论种族主义,伊斯兰恐惧症和黑人的生命很重要
在过去的半个世纪里,非裔美国人已经被一群移民所取代,成为美国伊斯兰教的代表,他们最初认为非裔美国人对权力卑躬屈膝,不关心为自己的历史冤屈寻求补偿。然而,最近,人们普遍认识到这种战略误判,再加上特朗普时代伊斯兰恐惧症的急剧上升,穆斯林移民的年轻后代开始认同左派,与黑人生命也重要运动(BLM)等其他社会正义平台团结一致,将伊斯兰恐惧症视为一种种族主义。因此,当2016年底在RIS会议上就支持非营利性BLM实体出现根本性分歧时,他们引发了激烈的社交媒体辩论。本文分析了这些在穆斯林学者的Facebook页面上进行的社区间谈判,将话语模型与社区成员的争论联系起来,这些争论涉及到整合反种族主义的异质话语的边界。
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