“Individualising racism makes it almost impossible to discuss it as a system of power related to capitalism and colonialism. Instead, in the mainstream, racism is usually only acknowledged when it manifests in physical attacks or explicit verbal abuse. But racism is rarely acknowledged when it manifests in more regular ongoing violence such as intergenerational poverty, systematic exclusion from adequate healthcare and housing, and methodical exploitation of labour.”
― Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia
― Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia
“Others cannot be absorbed or accepted into Britishness without destabilising the colonial idea of civilisational superiority that Britain is born from. Therefore, while being commanded to integrate on the one hand, racialised people are deliberately excluded from the nation on the other.”
― Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia
― Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia
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