Subtle and Overt Forms of Islamophobia: Microaggressions toward Muslim Americans
By K. Nadal, Katie E. Griffin, Sahran Hamit, J. Leon, Michael Tobio, David P. Rivera. 2012
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Previous research suggests that microaggressions, or subtle and covert manifestations of bias, are commonplace in the life experience of people of color, women, and sexual minorities. However, there is a dearth of research focusing on microaggressions toward people from religious minority groups. Using a qualitative approach and directed content analysis with Muslim American participants (N=10), six themes emerged: 1) Endorsing Religious Stereotypes of Muslims as Terrorists, 2) Pathology of the Muslim Religion, 3) Assumption of Religious Homogeneity, 4) Exoticization, 5) Islamophobic and Mocking Language, and 6) Alien in Own Land. Implications for Muslim mental health are discussed.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Religious coping, stress, and quality of life of Muslim university students in New Zealand (2014, background): “Islam has often been portrayed in the media in conjunction with political events and terrorism (Nadal et al., 2012).”
- Detecting weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media (2018, background): “Recent interventions in social psychology point to the multifaceted nature of prejudice; from behaviors which are explicit, overt and direct to those which are implicit, covert and indirect (Nadal, Griffin, Hamit, Leon, & Rivera, 2012; Pettigrew & Meertens, 1995).”