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Rhea Rahman (Assistant Professor of Anthropology Brooklyn College (CUNY). An ethnography of Islamic Relief (IR), the largest Islamic NGO based in the West, Racializing the Ummah explores how a Muslim organization can do good in a world that defines Muslimness as less than human. Rooted in more than a decade of international research, her study on the organizations projects, methods, and limitations reveals how racial capitalism permeates all aspects of humanitarianism and paints a frank, nuanced portrait of the constraints Islamic aid entities face in the effort to disentangle themselves from neocolonialism and Western hegemony.