No god but man: on race, knowledge, and terrorism

"Atiya Husain's No God but Man explores discourses around Muslims and racialization following the 9/11 attacks and the ensuing War on Terror. Husain uses the FBI's "most wanted" program, specifically the "most wanted terrorist" list, as an organizational centerpiec...

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1. VerfasserIn: Husain, Atiya (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham London Duke University Press 2025
In:Jahr: 2025
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Schlagwörter:
Shakur, Assata
United States > Federal Bureau of Investigation
Terrorism > Government policy > United States
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Social aspects > United States
Fugitives from justice > United States
Crime and race > United States
African American Muslims > Political activity
Muslims > Political activity > United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Religion / Islam / General
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Zusammenfassung:"Atiya Husain's No God but Man explores discourses around Muslims and racialization following the 9/11 attacks and the ensuing War on Terror. Husain uses the FBI's "most wanted" program, specifically the "most wanted terrorist" list, as an organizational centerpiece and public archive to understand constructions of race. Unlike other "most wanted" posters, descriptions on the "most wanted terrorist" list noticeably lack race as a category. In this way, Husain argues that the FBI considers these people, the majority whom are Muslim, as "raceless." Throughout the book, Husain utilizes an array of case studies, beginning with the work of Adolphe Quetelet, who was credited by former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover for the FBI's identification practices as well as the case of Assata Shakur, a former colleague of Malcom X and the only woman on the most wanted terrorist list. As a Black woman who was a Sunni Muslim in the 1970s, Shakur's case provides a unique scenario for Husain to explore how the FBI racializes both Muslims and Black Americans; and the creation of the most wanted terrorist list specifically and examines the "raceless" Muslim majority. No God but Man makes a bold intervention in the sociology of race, Black studies, and critical Muslim studies"--
Physische Details:xi, 196 Seiten, Illustrationen
ISBN:9781478031369
9781478028116