Islamofobia en Estados Unidos: xenofobia interna-beneficio externo - Documentos de Análisis Coyuntural (DAC)

Abstract

The approach to the concept of Islamophobia presides over the principles of racism understood not as biological racism practiced until the Second World War in Nazi Germany, but as cultural racism as a new practice of domination. Cultural racism is based mainly on discourse focused on inferiorizing the customs, values, beliefs belonging to a group of people. The contemporary cultural racist discourse deforms the cultural and identity characteristics of the "other", until it succeeds in creating a new imaginary that describes it as those inferior, barbarous, uncivilized or terrorist beings. The result of these imaginaries is the creation of cultural stereotypes immersed especially in Western culture.