Airport hypersurveillance forces Muslims into DuBoisian double consciousness
Evidence
Muslim Americans experience what DuBois referred to as “double consciousness” in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)—where they are incapable of being one self but instead are made up of multiple selves because they have to shift their identities in public—because of their hypersurveillance in spaces like airports. This inability to be one’s true self, to even speak one’s native language out of fear of surveillance, reflects the psychological wage Muslim Americans experience because of their racialization. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 151
Categorization
- XREF: Directly answers the reader’s question about the interior experience of being watched — applying DuBois’s double consciousness to Muslim Americans. — connects to: Airports function as Foucault’s panopticon for Muslim Americans; Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans; The hijab functions as a racial marker that triggers airport surveillance — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 224 (+6 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 151
Broader Connections
- Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans
#corroborates(0.80) - Airports function as panopticons where Muslim Americans self-police ordinary behaviors.
#expands(0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 323 - Airport surveillance publicly signals to the population that Muslims are potential terrorists
#expands(0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 338 - State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies
#corroborates(0.65) - Airport profiling of Muslims is systemic and state-institutionalized rather than random
#corroborates(0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 285 - The hijab functions as a racial marker that triggers airport surveillance
#exemplifies(0.50) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 224 - The travel ban instantiated a broader structural Islamophobia tying Muslim identity to terror suspicion
#qualifies(0.40) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 469