If scholars define Catholicism by its sacramentality, its commitment to an embodied encounter with the divine in real time, what…
Presence and contagion
racialization
Love in dark times
Bouteldja’s “we” is resolutely impure, as is the “you” she addresses. And because it is impure, it is political. It…
Conversion to Islam as religious and racial crossing
Due to the specific history of Islam in Western societies, the border that converts go over by becoming Muslim is…
Solitary confinement and the Nation of Islam
Prevailing understandings about race in prison often group black prisoners together, only separating them by gang affiliation. Yet, our essay…
The geopolitics of the “shithole”
Secular modernity is marked by a persistent project of separating the modern body from its waste, masking excremental operations, and…
After the “Muslim world”: Beyond strategic essentialism
Only after freeing the concept of the ummah from the formation of narratives about modern geopolitics, can we perhaps re-read…