The racialization of faith brings about significant epistemic injustice, where prejudices undermine individuals’ credibility and silence voices (Rekis, 2023).
Danielle’s positionality on faith, drawing from Crenshaw’s theory, emphasizes the intersectionality of religious beliefs with various identities such as gender, race, and culture, leading to harmful stereotypes. Danielle Radojcin’s illustrates this by discussing how religious beliefs affect Muslim women’s participation in sports and their rationalization of religious dress, as highlighted by Jawad (2022). Danielle argues that understanding faith reveals the needs of marginalized groups.
Danielle Radojcin’s perspective emphasizes the importance of institutions like UAL in fostering environments where students can openly discuss their beliefs. For example, a Muslim student at UAL expressed the deep significance of a dress to her mother, illustrating how religious attire signifies divine commitment. However, such racialization of religious dress can distort the testimony that the religious dress can make Muslim women hyper visible and their experiences are prone to prejudicial assumptions.
References
Rekis, J.(2023). Religious identity and epistemic injustice:An intersectional Account. Hypatia, 38, pp. 779-800. Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/hyp.2023.86.