Islamophobia and Proximities to Whiteness: Organizing Outside of the Brown Muslim Subject

The existing Islamophobia 1 literature has come to illustrate how the Muslim subject “can at a moment’s notice be erected as [an] object of supervision and discipline” (Morey Yaqin 2011: 5–6). In popular imagination, Muslimhood 2 stand for an undifferentiated culturally alien oriental defined through prism racialized violence irrationality. Although much anti-Islamophobia efforts – academic community-based work combat reductiveness universalized figure , these tend uncritically take up brown starting point inquiry, thereby further reifying homogenizing racialization dominant discourses. This article opens possibilities expand thinking on lifeworld by addressing erasure that happens with this approach Islamophobia. particular, we consider dialogical nature between operational life differing proximities whiteness our intersectional positions make available. And in turn, availabilities shape experience is prime focus analysis. authors ask: does systemic demarcation subjectivity, across racial, ethnic, class, regional, ideological lines, interact experienced operationalized? Leveraging auto-ethnographic approach, provide first-person narratives Islamophobic encounters from respective geopolitical social locations deconstruct delineate understanding