Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?
…nadequate to describe the racial nature of the ‘Muslim terrorist,’” writes Western State University law professor Neil Gotanda in a 2011 paper. “Racialized Islam in the form of the Muslim terrorist is not susceptible to the traditional analyses of the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses.” When I called up Gotanda, he emphasized that it was often tempting for Americans to frame race and racialization in familiar black/white terms. There are sub…
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