Doctoral Dissertation Research: Islamophobia and Civil Rights Advocacy Organizations

加州大学圣巴巴拉分校Erik Love本论文项目是围绕美国伊斯兰恐惧症问题深入研究中东、穆斯林和南亚美国人的民权倡导工作。这项研究试图解决四个假设。首先，种族主义的影响将促使组织领导层在广泛的受影响群体中建立联盟。第二，倡导组织的“普通”成员和选民中仍将存在明显的分歧。第三，被调查的组织领域的发展将在很大程度上反映美国其他领域的族裔和种族主义民权倡导组织的发展。最后，事件，而不是来自成员和成员的压力，将是组织领域大规模变化的主要原因。数据来自三个地点--洛杉矶和纽约的地方级组织，以及华盛顿特区的国家级倡导组织。该项目研究随着时间的推移发生的变化，以及通过多方法方法改变组织形式和战略。这包括一个纵向、全面的数据库，其中包括成立日期、使命声明和成员统计数据，其中概括了纽约和洛杉矶地方一级倡导组织领域的时间变化；对国家级倡导组织制作的新闻稿、时事通讯、小册子和其他文件的内容分析；以及对目前与这些组织合作的人的深入访谈。更广泛的影响：这个项目试图在社会科学学术中阐明美国多样化但往往被集体种族主义的穆斯林、中东和南亚社区之间的联系。此外，数据收集将产生数字档案，可供对穆斯林、中东和南亚美国人倡导领域感兴趣的其他学者使用。该项目将开发有可能影响当代政策辩论的知识。最后，研究结果可能会为民权倡导组织在研究中提供有用的、实用的信息。

SES-0802767Howard WinantErik LoveUniversity of California Santa BarbaraThis dissertation project is an in-depth study of Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian American civil rights advocacy work around the issue of Islamophobia in the United States. The research seeks to address four hypotheses. First, the impact of racialization will move organizational leadership to pursue coalition building among a wide range of affected groups. Second, divisions will remain apparent in the "rank-and-file" membership and constituency of advocacy organizations. Third, the development of the organizational field under investigation will largely reflect the development of other fields of ethnic and racialized civil rights advocacy organizations in the United States. And, finally, events, more than pressure from members and constituents, will be the primary causal factors in large-scale changes in the organizational field. Data are drawn from three locations--local-level organizations based in Los Angeles and New York, and national-level advocacy organizations based in Washington, DC. The project studies changes occurring over time, as well as shifts in organizational forms and strategies through a multi-methods approach. This includes a longitudinal, comprehensive database of founding dates, mission statements, and membership statistics encapsulating temporal changes in the field of local-level advocacy organizations in New York and Los Angeles; a content analysis of press releases, newsletters, pamphlets, and other documents produced by national-level advocacy organizations; and in-depth interviews of people currently working with these organizations. Broader Impacts: This project seeks to elucidate in social science scholarship the connections between the diverse yet often collectively racialized Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian communities in the United States. In addition, the data collection will produce digital archives that can be made available to other scholars interested in the field of Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian American advocacy. The project will develop knowledge that has the potential to impact contemporary policy debates. Finally, the results of the research may provide useful, practical information for the civil rights advocacy organizations in the study.