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... a contribution to the debate around the so-called Ground Zero mosque. New York City taxi driver anti-Muslim racism Ground Zero mosque This chapter is a meditation on the meaning of being brown in America. It focuses on the unusual ease with which “dark-skinned males” were assumed...

... at several examples. I examine, for instance, the anxieties around Obama’s citizenship and supposed links to Islam. I show how anti-Arab and anti-Muslim resentment constitute a “displaced” form of anti-black racism. The language of progress obscures how Obama’s ascendancy required him to disassociate his...