American racism has recently recoded blacks and Jews into Arabs and Muslims

Evidence

For what seems to have happened since the events of 9/11, but particularly during the presidential election of 2008, is the semiotic transmutation of “blacks” and “Jews” into “Arabs” and “Muslims”, respectively, in the evolving lexicon of American racism—and for this reason Benjamin Emanuel’s remark deserves closer attention, as does the entire presidential election in 2008, during which, on countless occasions, this recodification of American racism was fully on display, particularly when it came to the figure and phenomenon of Barack Hussein Obama himself. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 565

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of ‘semiotic transmutation’ as a recodification of American racism’s target groups.
• ADDENDUM: Directly extends the ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ argument about racism’s class/identity/political signaling into the post-9/11 era.
• XREF: connects to: Property racecraft perfected against Black Americans now templates anti-Muslim exclusion. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 468

Related

• American racism recoded ‘black’ into ‘Arab’ as Jew became Muslim. (similarity 0.86)
• Racism persists while its targets shift from black to brown and Jew to Muslim (similarity 0.84)
• Shifting racism’s targets exposes the social construction of race itself (similarity 0.82)
• Distinct racist systems fuse by cross-codifying their targets. (similarity 0.81)
• Terrorism is a political act divorced from any religion’s essence (similarity 0.81)
• Capital constantly recodifies racist power relations, so oppression shifts targets (similarity 0.78)