Author Erik Love answers RD’s 10 Questions
Erik Love
Erik Love, Ph.D., is the author of
A form of religious bigotry, with strong racial components, that scapegoats & demonizes Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim.
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and
An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality.
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in America (NYU Press, May 2017). He is a former Chair of Middle East Studies at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where he also serves as Assistant Professor of Sociology. His research on civil rights advocacy has received the support of the National Science Foundation and the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference.
