Black American Muslims suffer compounded vulnerability from converging anti-Black racism and Islamophobia

Evidence

Of course the ban did not impact undocumented or immigrant black Muslims alone. As demonstrated by the detainment of Muhammad Ali, Jr., in the immediate aftermath of the ban, black Muslims indigenous to the United States, with fathers who just five months earlier were being remembered by American presidents and honored by the state, were also vulnerable to the Muslim ban—and vulnerable to the many policing and profiling tentacles of structural Islamophobia. While being black in America today is challenging, being black and Muslim in a nation where anti-black racism and Islamophobia converge is even more daunting. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460

Categorization

• XREF: This convergence thesis connects to Selod’s work on intersectional surveillance of Muslim bodies and Rana’s apparatus framing. — connects to: The US government manufactured Islamophobia as a disciplinary technique against black political activism; Muslim faith practice that is benign for others marks young black men as threats. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 359; Poverty makes Muslim Americans more vulnerable to state surveillance and backlash — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 389 (+25 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460

Broader Connections

• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #corroborates (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• African American Muslims experience racialized religion differently due to distinct history #complicates (0.50) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 478
• Muslim and Black coalition-building deepened shared understanding of intersecting racisms. #corroborates (0.50)
• Islamophobia and racial prejudice are entangled in distinct ways across Western contexts #expands (0.45) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 64
• Muslim Americans move closer to the racial hierarchy’s bottom without reaching it #corroborates (0.45) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 665
• Muslim Americans occupy a liminal racial position above African Americans #corroborates (0.40)