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American Ethnologist: Vol. 32, No. 4Editor's Foreword - Virginia R. Dominguez
New Orleans is drowning as I write this foreword. The AAA last met there in November 2002. It is now Thursday, September 1, 2005. Looting, gunfire, and civil unrest show up on my screen when I check Netscape on-line or any U.S. television channel. I stare at the screen, horrified and increasingly angry that more is not being done. And I wonder, as another kind of coverage or reflection on the disaster comes to me via e-mail from colleagues abroad and fellow anthropologists in the United States, how and why is the rescue operation going so slowly? The vast majority of those shown on television needing to be evacuated, already hungry, tired, thirsty, and feeling left behind, appear to be African American. They are not a representative sample of the population of New Orleans. How will scholars analyze this catastrophe in the months to come, the years ahead, and the generations to follow?
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Abstracts from AE Vol. 32, No. 4
Contents and Abstracts:
AE Forum: Exclusionary Projects and Anthropological Analysis
Provocation:
Between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Some thoughts on the new Europe
Matti Bunzl
The apparent resurgence of hostility against Jews has been a prominent theme in recent discussions of Europe. At the same time, the adversities of the Muslim populations on the continent have received increasing attention as well. In this article, I attempt a historical and cultural clarification of the key terms in this debate. I argue against the common impulse to analogize anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Instead, I offer an analytic framework that locates the two phenomena in different projects of exclusion. Anti-Semitism was invented in the late 19th century to police the ethnically pure nation-state; Islamophobia, by contrast, is a formation of the present, marshaled to safeguard a supranational Europe. Whereas traditional anti-Semitism has run its historical course with the supersession of the nation-state, Islamophobia threatens to become the defining condition of the new Europe. [anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, European Union, Europe]
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