Islamophobia in Britain The Making of a Muslim Enemy /

• Main Author: Jackson, Leonie B. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Great Britain-Politics and government.; Religion and politics.; British Politics.; Politics and Religion.

This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes. Since 2001, Muslims...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Islamophobia and Racism
• Chapter 2: Good and Bad Muslims in Britain: Community Cohesion and Counterterrorism Discourse
• Chapter 3: - Islamophobia at the Local Level: The Case of Dudley Mosque
• Chapter 4: Denials of Racism and the English Defence League
• Chapter 5: Islamophobia and National Identity in Europe
• Chapter 6: Eurocentric Islamophobia
• Chapter 7: Conclusions: The Waste of Islamophobia.