Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics

Evidence

Although Black and Muslim identities overlap intimately in the demographics of France, the United States, and places beyond and in between, anti-Blackness and Islamophobia are distinct branches of bigotry. Yet young Desi Maher’s trenchant observation highlights the way in which both existences are ascribed deviance on account of their racialized identities. In the same fashion that law enforcement, and the judicial and carceral institutions that orbit and abet it, assign criminalized threat to Blackness, the War on Terror and its central purveyors assign suspicion of terrorism to Muslim bodies. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• XREF: connects to: Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other; Anti-Semitism and Negrophobia share the same underlying structure; Modern surveillance is structured by anti-Blackness — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2569 (+34 more)

Broader Connections

• Treating antisemitism and Islamophobia as analogous masks asymmetric power relations. #contradicts (0.60) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 23
• Anti-Blackness forms a single connected global phenomenon #expands (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1117
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice #expands (0.40)