... and effectively incorporated the Mzab into French Algeria and ended its special status as a French protectorate. Mzabi self-minoritization, Ghazal argues, was a process of performative differentiation based on a sectarian identity. It was initiated by the colonized and negotiated with the colonizer, emerging...

... of minority itself.” Amal Ghazal's essay explicitly focuses on “self-minoritization,” offering a longue durée of group politics among the Mzabi Ibadis in French Algeria who engaged in a process of “performative differentiation” well before the term minority came to be used in the 1940s by the French...

... marginalized South African citizenry could, in their search for well-being, take on the garb of a major force and attack minoritized others. But they wanted to devise ways of safeguarding such groups and contain the effects of majoritarian aggression. An ethical imperative as well as a cost-benefit analysis...

... within a voting body, and later still, to religious, ethno-national, or communal or group identity. The French dictionary Le Grand Robert 's most recent entry invokes their persistent confusion, citing “ jeunes issus des minorités ”—minority youth—to illustrate its contemporary double meaning...

... organizers in the United States prior to 1979. I highlight these biographical details, which she also mentions in the book, because upon reading the book I was so struck by how she brings her full self to it: her own personal and familial history of radical organizing and activism, together with her...

..., both outside and inside, whose claims have different goals and effects. When Blackness is represented as “the Other” of North Africa, a particular type of racialization is at work. Blackness is minoritized and whiteness becomes the dominant defining feature. There is a context for these discourses...

... specifically the lineage of Prophet Muhammad's tribe, the Quraysh. Moreover, in a dash of pragmatism, he took strong exception to Azad's call for jihad against the British. Such foolhardy confrontation against a powerful colonial state will only invite self-destruction, Khan had argued, while speculating...

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... that what he terms the “utopias of self-­ abstraction” animating liberal understandings of democratic publicity are not merely contingent; rather, they lie at the very core of a minoritizing logic of exclusion.1 This distinctively modern form of power has...

...). Laguerre, S. Michel. 1994 . The Informal City. New York: St. Martin's Press. Laguerre, S. Michel. 1999 . Minoritized Space: An Inquiry Into the Spatial Order of Things. Berkeley:Institute of Governmental Studies Press. Light, Ivan. 1972 . Ethnic Enterprise in America. Berkeley and Los...

..., and belonging in the twenty-first century. Our approach to the question of how minoritized communities navigate transnational dying is informed by postcolonial studies of migration and the politics of difference in Europe. As Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and others have argued, while there is no linear...

... of the religion of the parties involved, as “a self-confessed and deliirate blasphemy against Section 125 of the CrPC required a former husband to the Holy Prophet and [a] vicious calumny against Islam provide for his divorced wife if she had no means of and therefore deeply offensive to the religious sensi...

... inspiration from the racial assumptions of the colonial state in a postcolonial context marked by uncertainty about the form of Muslim national solidarity. Moving between programmatic literature on Basic Democracies and nineteenth-century colonial debates on the reform of local self-government, the essay...

... with the Mozabite minority, reactivating for the latter an unspoken fear of losing recognition of their minoritarian status. On the other side, the Mozabites, who for ten centuries were self-governing, have remained passively resistant to interventions by the state/center. Their economic power, 19 even...

... as a marker of communitarian identity was subsumed by religion, the dominant criterion of minoritization operating in the postcolonial nation-state. Thus, for the Pakistani state, Dalits became identified with and were indistinguishable from Hindus, “an increasingly undifferentiated and suspect group...

... priority—and which, now minoritized beyond this complex, generally disappear. 8 Drawing on this complex, Ahmed observes that Muslims have “been dealing with difference, diversity, and disagreement for fourteen centuries,” and Islam is a modus vivendi: “They mostly agree to disagree...

... Kumari Wickremasinghe Suriya , eds. The People’s Rights: Documents of the Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka, 1971 to 1978 . Colombo, Sri Lanka : Published by Bernadeen Silva for and on Behalf of the Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka , 1979 . Jennings Ivor . The Approach to Self...

... the Chinese Civil War (1927–49) that divided them and subsequently throughout the Cold War. John Chen follows how the attendant divided community articulated—through a largely Azharite generation of graduates—an essentialized, ethnicized, racialized, and minoritized Chinese Muslim identity across the Taiwan...

... in nation, respectively. In response, Americans terms of their high spirituality and civilization. self- identify themselves as minorities. In India, They have now exported this racial ideology to upper- caste Indians also minoritize themselves America. It is a self...

... navigate these demands on the self and its representation. With an analysis of formal and rhetorical features, mainly apostrophe and the imperative voice, as well as a consideration of Iqbal's philosophy of time and the representation of temporality in the lyric, one can see how the poem reorients...