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No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism

No God But Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism

Hardcover

Series: Global Insecurities

Religion General IslamBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 1478028114
ISBN13: 9781478028116
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 28 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI's post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point. Atiya Husain traces the origins of the FBI wanted poster form to the work of nineteenth-century social scientist Adolphe Quetelet, specifically his overvalued type of human called average man. Husain argues that this notion of the human continues to structure wanted posters, as well as much contemporary social scientific thinking about race. Focusing on the curious representations on the Most Wanted Terrorist list that range from Muslims who lack a race category on their posters to the 2013 addition of Black revolutionary Assata Shakur, Husain demonstrates the ongoing influence of the average man and its relevance even today, proposing a counterweight to the category by engaging Shakur's turn to Islam in the 1970s in the legal context. In doing so, Husain shows the limitations of race as an analytical category altogether.

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