CO-SPONSORSHIP: Contemporary Islam Unit, Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit, and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit

"For Our Freedom, They Must Go! Authoritarianism, Islamophobia, Anti-Latinx Narratives and the Imaginaries of Resistance"

At the turn of the 21st century, Samuel Huntington identified the United States as a nation of settlers facing multiple threats to its constitution, including Muslims and Latinx populations. Over the past two decades, both groups have become central targets in the discursive strategies of international fascism, now in power in the US and in multiple spaces throughout the world. In collaboration with the Contemporary Islam, Latino/a Religion, Culture, and Society and Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Studies units, we invite proposals that show entanglements in one or more of these topics:  

• Narratives of white genocide and replacement, particularly regarding Muslim and/or Latinx immigration.
• The new right-wing co-optation of Muslim and/or Latinx populations.
• New religioracial perspectives on whiteness in the United States regarding the future inclusion of a “Middle Eastern or North African” designation in the US census.
• They Are Eternal Foreigners: The denaturalization of longstanding Muslim and/or Latinx histories, memories, or individuals.
• Conspiracy theories that link Muslim and/or Latino Immigration with a Jewish plot to destroy Western civilization.
• Religious resistance against state oppression: Cross-cultural, Muslim and/or Latinx experiences.
• The intersection of Islamophobia and anti-Latinx sentiment with anti-Black racism, Sinophobia, anti-Native racism, and/or antisemitism.
• Liberationist and decolonial frameworks in resistance to racist and authoritarian structures.
• Fascism as "colonialism turned inward:” What the US and Europe can learn from  Global South struggles?  
• Doctrines of National/International Security, New Red/Green/Brown-scares.
• Conflictive Narratives of ‘Freedom’ and American consciousness.
• How white Christian nationalist ideologies use religious texts and myths of racial supremacy to justify the marginalization of non-Christian, immigrant, and racialized groups.