Understanding Islamophobia
Resources
Cornell Resources
- The Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation offers a number of course for inclusive teaching for diverse classrooms.
- Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom is a four-week, instructor-paced online course for anyone with teaching responsibilities at Cornell, at any level of diversity expertise. Modules explore strategies for inclusive course design, social identity and self-reflection, and pedagogical practices that effectively support student engagement and a sense of belonging across difference
- Faculty Institute for Diversity focuses on developing inclusive pedagogies that support co-learning, power-sharing, and dialogue practices.
- Building Connections with Dialogue (Intergroup Dialogue Project) offers participants a variety of tools, processes, and frameworks to develop more equitable and effective educational strategies, and integrate dialogue into a range of experiences with colleagues and students.
- ECornell: Twenty Years Of War: The Global War on Terror, Security Statecraft, and Racial JusticeResponding to Incidents that Affect the Teaching and Learning Environment
- Cornell Near Eastern Studies
- Cornell Comparative Muslim Societies Program
- Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies
Talks, Lectures, Podcasts
- Twenty Years Of War: The Global War on Terror, Security Statecraft, and Racial Justice
- “Striving for Tolerance and Interfaith Cooperation (video).” Lecture by Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago.
- “The Intersectionality of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racism” (video). Lecture by Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.
- “The Birth of Modern Europe and the Expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain” (video). Lecture by Tariq Ali, novelist and filmmaker.
- Out of Time: On the Rise and Resilience of Anti-Muslim Bigotry Today, a talk given on March 18, 2024 by Moustafa Bayoumi, Journalist and Professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York
- Racializing Religion: Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Palestine, a talk given on March 28, 2024, by Sahar Aziz, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights, Rutgers University Law School
- “I” Statements, a podcast created by the Intergroup Dialogue Project
Striving for Tolerance and Interfaith Cooperation Lecture by Dr. Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago.
Online Resources
Source: Diversity at Cornell
Protecting Student Mental Health in the Face of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
The Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University – What is Islamophobia?
Challenge Islamophobia: A Project for Teaching for Change
US Department of Justice – Learn About Hate Crimes
The UC Berkeley HAAS Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society — “Islamophobia in the United States: A Resource Reading Pack
‘Backlash Effect’: Why the Middle East Conflict Triggers Hate Crimes in the US
Department of Education Announces New Tools to Tackle Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Related Forms of Discrimination and Bias
Books
Books
- Awan, Imran (ed). Islamophobia in cyberspace: Hate Crimes go Viral. Abingdon, Oxon, England; New York: Ashgate, 2016.
- Bayoumi, Moustafa. How Does it Feel to be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America. Penguin Press, 2008.
- Beydoun, Khaled. American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018.
- Green, Todd H. The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.
- Love, Erik. Islamophobia and Racism in America. New York: New York University Press, 2017.