Economic privilege fails to secure full citizenship privileges for racialized Muslims

Evidence

The hypersurveillance of Muslim bodies is one of the processes where scholars are able to capture how a Muslim identity is racialized. The racial hierarchy is not static because social constructions around race are constantly shifting due to the social and political contexts (Omi and Winant 2015). The vast majority of the Arab and South Asian Muslim Americans in this study were privileged economically, yet they were incapable of accessing all the privileges associated with citizenship. Purkayastha demonstrates the ways that boundaries are created between South Asian Americans and whites because of the ways their ethnicity has been racialized. While South Asians have been able to live in white suburban neighborhoods, attain professional degrees, and send their kids to affluent schools, they are still treated as if they are not quite American (Purkayastha 2005). In the War on Terror, not only are Muslims not quite American; they are perceived and treated as if they are a potential threat to national security. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 471

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior map anchoring: economic assimilation as insufficient for racial equity, echoing Purkayastha and the ‘not quite American’ framing relevant to the reader’s project. — 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
• DEFINE: Surveillance identified here as the observable process through which racialization of Muslim identity becomes empirically visible.