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Global Insecurities
No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism
By
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-6034-5
Publication date:
2024
Book Chapter
The Rule of Racelessness
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Published:December 2024
The goal of chapter 3 is to offer the wealth of examples of wanted posters of raceless Muslims on the Most Wanted Terrorist list. The chapter demonstrates how unique these posters are by making key comparisons between their posters and those of Muslims on nonterrorism lists and non-Muslims on terrorism lists. The chapter argues that the fact of their racelessness is something to think with rather than to consider it a case of the racialization of Muslims. Their racelessness represents a paradoxical combination of deviance and power requiring an understanding of how the theological continues into the biocentric.
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