Bombing and sanctions constitute racialized vulnerability to premature death

Evidence

Through all these administrations, people in many Muslim-majority countries were subject to racism in the form described by Ruth Wilson Gilmore as a “vulnerability to premature death” through conventional wars, sanctions, drone warfare, and airstrikes. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 87

Categorization

• DEFINE: Deploys Gilmore’s definition of racism as ‘vulnerability to premature death’ to concretize what anti-Muslim racism means materially under the war on terror — a citable framing that could sharpen the vault’s existing claims.
• XREF: Gilmore’s definition of racism appears elsewhere in the reader’s anti-racism material; this passage bridges that general definition to the specific Islamophobia-empire cluster. — connects to: The national security state has racialized Muslims into a category vulnerable to premature death. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 52; Racism operates as production of group vulnerability to premature death; Racism is best understood as the promotion of premature death — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 141 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism operates as production of group vulnerability to premature death #corroborates (0.92)
• Racism is best understood as the promotion of premature death #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 141
• Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated. #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 141
• A racist logic marked Iraqis as vulnerable to premature death #exemplifies (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 197
• Racialization operates as a form of warfare deciding who lives and dies #corroborates (0.85)
• Racialization shortens minority life expectancy even when incident harm is rare. #expands (0.78) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 347