Islamophobia, the Surveillance State & U.S. Wars of Aggression w/ Dr. Nazia Kazi
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 18 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
How does the relentless U.S. war machine sell its operations to the public? Dr. Nazia Kazi, an activist and professor of Anthropology at Stockton University, explains how the managers of the U.S. empire foment Islamophobia and other racist ideas at home as an integral part of waging war abroad. Dr. Kazi challenges theories of racism that ignore U.S. foreign policy, and discusses how Islamophobia has played a central role in justifying U.S. acts of aggression, in excusing military atrocities, and in creating a massive new surveillance apparatus at home. That surveillance has been turned on Muslim and Arab Americans, along with social movements from Occupy Wall Street to Standing Rock to Black Lives Matter.
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Dr. Nazia Kazi is author of the book “Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics,” which has just been republished in a second edition.
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| 0:00.0 | Imperialism, racism, and Islamophobia, the toxic mix driving and justifying U.S. wars of aggression. |
| 0:11.0 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of The Real Story on the Socialist Program. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 0:53.6 | Today we'll be talking to Dr. Nasiakazi. |
| 0:56.2 | She is an activist and professor of anthropology at Stockton University. And she is the author of the book |
| 1:02.2 | Islamophobia, race, and global politics. Dr. Kazi, welcome to the socialist program. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm happy to be here. Thank you so much for joining. Dr. Kazi, you to the Socialist Program. I'm happy to be here. Thank you so much for joining. |
| 1:12.5 | Dr. Kazi, you wrote a book, Islamophobia, race, and global politics in 2018. |
| 1:18.5 | That's when it was published. |
| 1:20.0 | It's been republished, a second edition. |
| 1:22.9 | Tell us a little bit about the book, why you wrote it, what was the context for your writing, and |
| 1:29.3 | what's new with the new edition? |
| 1:31.7 | Sure. So the book was largely motivated by my desire to write something about Islamophobia |
| 1:37.4 | that didn't focus on sort of explaining Islam and Muslims to a Western audience. Quite often, you'll find really introductory |
| 1:46.5 | texts on Islamophobia, and my book is an introductory text. It's not a dense academic volume. |
| 1:53.1 | You know, it's been used in freshman year college classes, community colleges, even, you know, |
| 1:58.2 | high school classes. But the book really tries to connect anti-Muslim racism |
| 2:02.9 | to sort of empire building, specifically U.S. empire building. And I think sometimes we assume that |
| 2:09.5 | introductory readers would not be able to grasp that concept. But in fact, I found at least in my |
| 2:15.1 | experiences in the classroom and talking to audiences about my book, that Americans are frankly eager to think beyond sort of this attitudinal approach to racism. |
| 2:25.8 | You know, that approach that focuses on perceptions and prejudices and are eager to think sort of more systemically. |
| 2:33.2 | The new volume that just came out a couple months ago has some new information in it as we look back on the Trump presidency. |
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