Class privilege fails to shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance.

Evidence

The men and women I interviewed enjoyed class privilege, but in a society deeply invested in a war to combat and prevent terror, their socioeconomic status does not protect them from this differential treatment in society. … The state and private citizens participate in the process of defining and redefining who is allowed to claim a white identity when they actively racialize groups. Together, they act as gatekeepers of whiteness, rearticulating what it means to be white in America. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 473

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the common ‘money whitens’ assumption; parallels the book’s overall slot replacing the Global Racial Enemy. — connects to: Sit-ins finally made class privilege fail to shield white elites from civil rights costs — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 461