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The Islamophobia project area aims to provide cutting-edge research and tools for narrative production, awareness raising, community engagement, and policy interventions to understand and challenge the social, political, and legal mechanisms used to demonize and Other Muslims in the United States. This area of work seeks to unmask the multiplicities of Islamophobia in the US that are influencing the legal, political, and social landscapes across the globe. Projects span the topic of U.S. anti-Muslim legislation and campaigns; Islamophobia experiences and perspectives; and global Islamophobia education and advocacy.
U.S. Anti-Muslim Legislation
The U.S. Anti-Muslim Legislation project area catalogues how right-wing activists and their allies in state legislatures and the federal government have undertaken coordinated and systematized efforts to alienate, criminalize, and perpetuate fear and othering of Muslims in the United States through anti-Muslim legislation and coordinated anti-Muslim campaigns.
Islamophobia Experiences and Perspectives
The Islamophobia Experiences and Perspectives project area assesses Islamophobia’s prevalence from the perspectives of US Muslims while also assessing their societal engagement, worldviews, and belonging as they navigate their lives in the US. It seeks to develop datasets and tools for developing the appropriate responses to the unfolding crisis.
Global Islamophobia Education and Advocacy
The Global Islamophobia and Advocacy project area develops and brings together research on the origins, motivations, and underlying power structures that generate and support global Islamophobia, with a focus on how Islamophobia manifests across certain nations and regions. The project area also aims to identify and draw attention to gaps in such research.
In the Media
- The Persistence of Prejudice: The State of Islamophobia in America (The Click) | May 1, 2023
- A UC Berkeley study explores Islamophobia 20 years post 9/11 (KALW) | Nov. 18, 2021
- Ilhan Omar Urges Creation Of Special Envoy Role To Combat Global Anti-Muslim Hate (HuffPost) | Oct. 21, 2021
- Islamophobia undermines and weakens U.S. Muslim women’s rights (SF Examiner) | Oct. 18, 2021
- More Women Are Targets of Xenophobic Hate (Richmond Pulse) | Oct. 13, 2021
- UC Berkeley survey finds most Muslim Americans face discrimination (DailyCal) | Oct. 5, 2021
- NST Leader: United States of Islamophobia (New Straits Times) | Oct. 2, 2021
- Over Two-Thirds Of Muslim Americans Have Faced Islamophobia, New Survey Finds (HuffPost) | Oct. 1, 2021
- Majority of US Muslims have experienced Islamophobia, poll finds (Middle East Eye) | Oct. 1, 2021
- More than two-thirds of US Muslims have experienced Islamophobia, poll finds (The New Arab) | Oct. 1, 2021
- Islamophobia is a ‘very big problem’ most likely to affect women (The Muslim Vibe) | Oct. 1, 2021
- Over two-thirds of US Muslims experience Islamophobia: Survey (Anadolu) | Sept. 30, 2021
- Berkeley survey: Majority of Muslim Americans face Islamophobia, especially women (San Francisco Chronicle) | Sept. 29, 2021
- Muslim women more likely than men to experience Islamophobia, survey finds (Religion News Service) | Sept. 29, 2021
- The Latest Attack on Islam: It’s Not a Religion (The New York Times) | Sept. 27, 2018:
- Legalizing Othering (The Bridge Initiative) | April 2, 2018
- Trump's travel ban is just one of many US policies that legalize discrimination against Muslims (Salon) | Feb. 14, 2018
- Trump's travel ban is just one of many US policies that legalize discrimination against Muslims (The Conversation) | Jan. 29, 2018
- Anti-sharia laws proliferate as Trump strikes hostile tone toward Muslims (The Guardian) | Dec. 30, 2017
- Are 'anti-Sharia' bills legalising Islamophobia? (Al Jazeera English) | Oct. 1, 2017
- Legalizing Otheirng: The United States of Islamophobia (The Journalist) | Sept. 2017
- The legalization of Islamophobia is underway in the United States (Quartz) | Sept. 14, 2017
- From 9/11 to hate groups: The economic marginalisation of the West’s Muslims (Middle East Eye) | Sept. 13, 2017
- Anti-Sharia Movement in the US (The Daily Sabah) | Sept. 11, 2017
- Meet the Man Turning Anti-Muslim Hate Into Law (The Daily Beast) | Sept. 8, 2017
