European Orientalism was normalized and domesticated into American area studies

Evidence

What is perhaps less obvious is (a) the extent to which the European tradition of Orientalist scholarship was, if not taken over, then accommodated, normalized, domesticated, and popularized and fed into the postwar efflorescence of Near Eastern studies in the United States; and (b) the extent to which the European tradition has given rise in the United States to a coherent attitude among most scholars, institutions, styles of discourse, and orientations, despite the contemporary appearance of refinement, as well as the use of (again) highly sophisticated-appearing social-science techniques. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 749

Categorization

• XREF: The verbs accommodated, normalized, domesticated, popularized describe the very process of attitude-formation later Islamophobia scholarship presses on; connects to how scholarly neutrality masks inherited bias. — connects to: European Orientalist scholars transplanted their paradigm to US universities as imperial power shifted — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 254; American Orientalism couples inherited European alienness claims with produced Arab stereotypes. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 204
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 749