The “Unknown” Middle Easterner: Post-Racial Anxieties and Anti-MENA Racism Throughout Colonized Space-Time

IF 1.3 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES

Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2021-01-06 DOI:10.5325/CRITPHILRACE.9.1.0048

George N. Fourlas

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Abstract

Abstract:Here, the claim that Middle Eastern (MENA) persons are racialized is a response to complexities that define the United States (US); namely, the language of race is seen as antiquated or misleading, and thus it fails to capture MENA American experiences, leading some to call for different terminology (i.e., xenophobia or Islamophobia). The author argues that we should call social-political violence committed against MENA people racism because to name it otherwise is to ground the experience in an incomplete description which affords lighter moral responsibility and omits historical conflict. The article first elaborates the problem of racial conflict in the US and the specific problem of MENA racialization. It then responds with a historical argument that emphasizes key genealogical markers in the co-emergence of orientalism, colonialism, and racialization. The article closes by contrasting the idea of race with competing terms to defend its use on descriptive and normative grounds.

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“未知的”中东人:贯穿殖民时空的后种族焦虑和反中东和北非种族主义

摘要:在这里，中东人被种族化的说法是对定义美国(US)的复杂性的回应;也就是说，种族语言被认为是过时的或误导性的，因此它无法捕捉中东和北非美国的经验，导致一些人要求使用不同的术语(即仇外心理或伊斯兰恐惧症)。作者认为，我们应该把针对中东和北非人民的社会政治暴力称为种族主义，因为否则的话，就会把这种经历建立在一种不完整的描述上，这种描述可以减轻道德责任，并忽略了历史冲突。文章首先阐述了美国的种族冲突问题以及中东和北非地区种族化的具体问题。然后，它回应了一个历史论点，强调了东方主义、殖民主义和种族化共同出现的关键家谱标志。文章最后将种族的概念与竞争的术语进行了对比，以捍卫其在描述性和规范性基础上的使用。

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Critical Philosophy of Race ETHNIC STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.