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The Bridge Initiative is a multi-year research project on Islamophobia housed in Georgetown University.
The Bridge Initiative aims to disseminate original and accessible research, offers engaging analysis and commentary on contemporary issues, and hosts a wide repository of educational resources to inform the general public about Islamophobia.
Research & Resources
Nationalists 1st: Trump, Charlottesville, and racists
Donald Trump successfully drew on the many success stories of right-wing populist parties in Europe to win the elections and become president of the United States of America. He used a slogan that has been popular in Europe’s plagued history of right-wing populist parties. In France, the National Front has been campaigning with the slogan…
The (sexual) Inferiority Complex of White Supremacists: Charlottesville and the Call for ‘White Sharia’
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist” is a quote from the lifelong and famous anti-racist activist scholar Angela Davis[1]. While many Americans think that President Donald Trump’s initial response to the August 12, 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was inadequate, an adequate response can…
What If Charlottesville Protesters Were Black Muslims?
If you do not believe that there is a “white privilege” double-standard in America today, the only thing that you need to ask yourself in the aftermath of the Charlottesville protests is the following question: What if the white supremacist neo-Nazi protestors in Charlottesville were black Muslims instead? “We’re going to fulfill the promises of…