Black Muslims are often overlooked in conversations about Islam, and Afro-Arabs are rendered invisible in the discourse of Arab politics and culture.
the livelihoods of African, Afro-Arab, Asian and other migrant domestic workers to an Arab sponsor — a system that critics call modern-day slavery.
“Solidarity is not a zero-sum reciprocity game. We have to acknowledge that as we’re standing up for Palestine and speaking out against injustice, that it feels hollow if there is not a commitment to speaking out against injustice here,” said Maytha Alhassen, a historian of U.S. race, migration and gender“There are various ways that non-Black Arabs contribute to the injustice that Black people experience in the U.S.
Arab and immigrant store owners are going through an awakening and want to be better allies, said Ahmed Jitan, a community organizer for thecommunity organization and clinic with facilities on the South Side of Chicago. The network focuses on addressing structural, systematic and social injustice, and Jitan hopes his organization can help diffuse racial tension and model a healthier relationship for shop owners in majority-Black neighborhoods.
“Our work involves challenging those that are in a place that is rooted in anti-Blackness and challenging them and holding them accountable, as well as trying to support those store owners who are trying to do better and how they can create an alternative business model in these neighborhoods,” Jitan said.
Hill’s work connects the dots between white supremacy, anti-Black racism and Islamophobia, topics many mosques and Muslim conferences deemed too uncomfortable just a few years ago. The Arabs for Black Lives Collective, a new initiative spearheaded by a group of non-Black Arabs, also issued a
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