Connecting the “Others”: White Anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim Views in America

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Abstract

Drawing from recent work on “otherness” and social boundaries in America, we investigate anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish opinion among white Americans. After outlining the logic of the comparison, we use nationally representative data to analyze these forms of othering. Although anti-Muslim opinion is more extensive, the two track together empirically and share a cultural logic as connected forms of ethno-religious boundary-making. Latent class analysis shows that anti-Semitism is nested within anti-Muslim attitudes, with political and religious identifications as consistent predictors of opinion. We conclude with a reflection on politicized boundary-making and the relationship between extreme and mainstream views of the “other.”.

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Gerteis, J., & Rotem, N. (2023). Connecting the “Others”: White Anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim Views in America. Sociological Quarterly, 64(1), 144–164. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2022.2045882

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