A self-perpetuating surveillance industry depends on racializing Muslims as terrorist threats.

Evidence

As I show in this book, racialized identities and experiences are constructed and created through social interactions with private citizens and state policies. There are political, economic, and social motivations behind the process of racialization. For example, the need to maintain a surveillance industry is driven by the idea that terrorism is one of the greatest threats to Americans. This surveillance industry needs bodies to watch and monitor; therefore racializing a Muslim body as a potential terrorist becomes a necessity to keep the surveillance industry well resourced. Through this process of racialized surveillance, South Asian and Arab Muslims are moving further away from whiteness on the racial hierarchy. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 479

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the core mechanism of racialization as a constructed, motivated process — the central definitional framework the reader needs for their map.
• SEED: The ‘surveillance industry needs bodies’ framing is a strong structural thesis: racialization as industrial feedstock, not just prejudice.
• XREF: connects to: Surveillance itself racializes target groups into a suspicious race — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 75