@article{6e0d17d7aa4741529837ba427d5e26e0,
title = "Critical Race Theory and Islamophobia: challenging inequity in higher education",
abstract = "This paper engages with a dominant model of Islamophobia which gives race and racism primacy. It argues that such an approach is parochial, conceptually narrow and practically ineffective. I take as my case the UK{\textquoteright}s Muslim student awarding gap – Muslims are currently the worst performing religious group at UK universities. Existing work explains this problem in terms of racism/Islamophobia. These factors are correctly identified, but a lack of analytical precision around race and religion has led strategies to fall back on {\textquoteleft}standard{\textquoteright} and largely ineffective ideas. I argue that racial and religious disadvantage must be understood separately, though intersectionally, through Critical Race Theory and the concept of {\textquoteleft}religification{\textquoteright}. Such an analysis sheds light on how institutional approaches to race and religion play a key role in the structuration and perpetuation of educational disadvantage for Muslim students. It also paves the way for more effective strategies for eradicating the awarding gap.",
keywords = "CRT, Islamophobia, awarding gap, higher education, muslim students, religification",
author = "Reza Gholami",
year = "2021",
month = jan,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1080/13613324.2021.1879770",
language = "English",
volume = "24",
pages = "319--337",
journal = "Race Ethnicity and Education",
issn = "1361-3324",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
number = "3",
}