Radical Skin, Moderate Masks: De-Radicalising the Muslim and Racism in Post-Racial Societies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781783489121)

Radical Skin, Moderate Masks explores a voice trapped by the War on Terror. How can a Muslim speak about politics? And, in what tone can they argue? In today's climate can they "talk back" without being defined as a moderate or radical? And, what do the conditions put on their political choices reveal about liberalism and its deep and historical relationship with racism? This timely work looks at ongoing debates and how they call for Muslims to engage in a "de-radicalisation" of their voice and identities. The author takes his lessons from Fanon and uses them to make sense of his many readings of Said's Orientalism. He reflects on the personal and scholarly difficulty of writing this very book. An autoethnography follows. It shows (rather than tells of) the felt demand to use a pleasing "Apollonian" liberalism. This approved language, however, erases a Muslim's ability to talk about the "Dionysian" more Asiatic parts of their faith and politics.

Author: Yassir Morsi
ISBN-10: 178348912X
ISBN-13: 9781783489121
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2017
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d