Assimilation Doesn’t Work: Polish Tatar Muslims [MNE CH1 EP5]

00:00 – What is assimilation? 03:40 – How does one assimilate 04:28 – How Provence and Britanny assimilated to France 06:15 – The case of Poland’s Tatars 08:28 – What about Muslims who support the far right? 09:15 – What about model minorities? Arabs in America before 9/11 10:49 – The logic of ethno nationalism 12:17 – Does representation help? 13:46 – What if British Muslims hang out at the pub, eat pork and vote Reform? REFERENCES: Alrababa'h, Ala', William Marble, Salma Mousa, and Alexandra A. Siegel. 2019. ‘Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? the Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes’. American Political Science Review 115(4), 1111-28. Anderson, Benedict. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. Górak-Sosnowska, Katarzyna. 2022. Polish Platonic Islamophobia. In: Managing Spoiled Identity. Pages: 103–134 https://brill.com/display/book/978900... Narkowicz, Kasia and Pędziwiatr, Konrad (2017) From unproblematic to contentious:mosques in Poland. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. pp. 441-457. https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/10290... Pędziwiatr, Konrad (20 October 2018). "The Catholic Church in Poland on Muslims and Islam". Patterns of Prejudice. 52 (5): 461–47 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/... Switat 2016 http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element... Zych, Nik. 2022. Making “Good Muslims”: Poland and the Lipka Tatars https://criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/m... Online sources Why are Polish people so wrong about Muslims in their country? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-... Imaginary Muslims: How the Polish right frames Islam https://www.brookings.edu/articles/im... How 9/11 Destroyed the Muslim Model-Minority Myth https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/... Coronavirus: The ‘yellow peril’ revisited https://theconversation.com/coronavir... ABOUT ME: Hello and welcome! I'm a Sociologist at the University of Warwick, UK where I explore social issues and find ways for people to resist, heal and flourish. My publications and other creative projects are on my website https://williambarylo.com . To get in touch, email me at [email protected] This channel will NOT be monetized so: 1. I can have creative freedom and 2. Offer ad-free videos to my viewers. Muslims in the Neoliberal Empire is my latest book published with Oxford University Press. It is about how the society colonises us and what we can do about it. Check out the contents here: https://mne.williambarylo.com/ Don’t buy it, it’s really expensive! (I don’t make much money out of it anyway). However, you can join the community for more interactive online conversations around it by subscribing to my newsletter https://william-barylo.kit.com/b11fac... If you REALLY want a paper version of the book, use the code AUFLY30 for 30% off when you check out here (I warned you it’s expensive): https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...