Airport surveillance operates as racialized practice targeting black bodies

Evidence

Simone Browne (2015) has argued that surveillance is a deeply racial and racist practice. She offers the terms “racialized surveillance” (p. 10) and “racial baggage” (p. 132) to understand racialization as practice and effect on black women and men in airports. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 710

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the law-merchant and extralegal-contract threads: security screening is another domain where informal judgment substitutes for formal, verifiable process.