Dracula encodes multiple entangled racial anxieties rather than one enemy

Evidence

Dracula is a product of racial hybridity, a Jew and an Ottoman Turk with a measure of Hun and vampire thrown in. Dracula’s supernatural powers include the ability to shape-shift into animals, turn into mist, control his victims through hypnosis, cast no shadow, and slide along the floor. Dracula symbolizes the degeneration of racial purity, reflecting the popularity of degeneration theory at the time Stoker was writing. “Vampires are represented as sexually predatory immigrants who infect and enslave the weak and the unwary. Vampires contaminate flesh and blood; they disrupt national and racial certainty.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 523

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s core project on the manufactured Muslim monster — Dracula as a hybrid of Muslim (Ottoman Turk) and Jewish markers shows the monster category absorbing multiple racialized others.