Islamophobia in the United States: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry into the Subjectification of Mu...

1. IV. DATA RESULTS

1.1. The interpellated subject

1.2. Subject positions

1.3. Political subjectivity

2. V. DISCUSSION

3. I. INTRODUCTION (15 pages) / The history & relevance of Islamophobia

3.1. Problem Statement

3.1.1. Islamophobia in the US

3.1.1.1. Orientalism

3.1.1.1.1. American exceptionalism

3.1.1.2. Terrorism studies

3.1.1.2.1. 9/11

3.2. Purpose of the Study

3.2.1. The subjectification of Muslim Americans in the context of the 'war on terror'

3.2.1.1. Subjectivity

3.2.1.2. Muslim Americans

3.2.1.3. From understanding (or coping with) to resisting Islamophobia

4. II. LITERATURE REVIEW (30 pages) / Conceptualizing Islamophobia

4.1. Defining Islamophobia

4.2. Islamophobia in the US vs. France and the UK

4.3. Islamophobia before and after 9/11

4.4. Islamophobia and terrorism

4.5. Islamophobia vis-à-vis: xenophobia, anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, and Orientalism

4.6. The psychologization of Islamophobia

4.7. The critical alternative

5. III. METHODS / 'Measuring' Islamophobia

5.1. Quantifying Islamophobia and the qualitative alternative (CQI)

5.2. Interviewing

5.3. Critical discursive psychology