Economic crisis birthed twin racial projects criminalizing blacks and Arabs

Evidence

Moreover, the global economic crisis and the crisis of US imperialism in the late 1960s and 1970s created the conditions, I have argued, for two simultaneous racial projects: the criminalization of blacks and the terrorization of Arabs (and later Iranians, Muslims, and South Asians). The “black criminal” and the “brown terrorist” were birthed in the womb of a national security state seeking to quell threats to the restoration of US economic and political hegemony through the logic of counterinsurgency. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 237

Moreover, the global economic crisis and the crisis of US imperialism in the late 1960s and 1970s created the conditions, I have argued, for two simultaneous racial projects: the criminalization of blacks and the terrorization of Arabs (and later Iranians, Muslims, and South Asians). The “black criminal” and the “brown terrorist” were birthed in the womb of a national security state seeking to quell threats to the restoration of US economic and political hegemony through the logic of counterinsurgency. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 249

Categorization

• SEED: Strong angle: ‘black criminal and brown terrorist as twin products of a single counterinsurgency state’ essay, testing whether a non-capitalist or Gulf state could stage the same double project.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 237; Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 249
• XREF: connects to: Political and economic crises are resolved through manufactured fear of racialized criminals — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 81; Moral panics about racialized criminals resolve economic crises via law-and-order solutions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 93; The black criminal and brown terrorist were twin products of empire in crisis — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 237 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Truman-era aid policy racialized Arabs as irresponsible extremists by nature #exemplifies (0.85)
• Arab and Muslim law students after 2001 experienced state criminalization paralleling Blackness #exemplifies (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 20
• Anti-black economic harms went unprosecuted while criminality was reincarnated in new statutes #exemplifies (0.80)
• Anti-Muslim crisis periods simultaneously empower and marginalize Arab American communities #expands (0.75)