Everyday harassment from strangers makes Muslim American children internalize illegitimacy

Evidence

The accountability for all Muslims felt by Muslim women who wear the hijab is so powerful that it can have an impact on Muslim children as well. In a post-­9/11 society, Muslim children are growing up with the awareness that their religious identity is under constant scrutiny. Reema’s statement reveals the pressure Muslim kids are placed under because of this public surveillance. They are raised feeling a responsibility to demonstrate they are good people, because it will counter the negative associations that the public has with Islam. Racialized surveillance can become deeply internalized when Muslim American children are taught to self-­discipline and self-­surveil. At a young age, Muslim American youth are learning they are not like other American children but are held to different standards. One of the consequences of this racialization is the denial of individuality. Muslim Americans are denied their individuality in public spaces and are forced to navigate society within the confines of an externally imposed collective identity. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 546 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Small everyday humiliations of Muslims undermined any chance of integration — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 363; A ten-year-old child internalized the terrorist label as her identity — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 417; Racialized surveillance gets internalized by Muslim American children as self-discipline — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 546 (+8 more)

Related

• Racialized surveillance gets internalized by Muslim American children as self-discipline (similarity 0.91)
• Hostile public scrutiny becomes internalized as the architecture of Muslim American identity (similarity 0.91)
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim children their individuality and citizenship privileges (similarity 0.86)
• Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance fear makes Muslims internalize discipline and self-police (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-Muslim harassment drives children to internalize the terrorist label (similarity 0.81)
• Surveillance causes Muslims to discipline their own behavior preemptively (similarity 0.81)
• Surveilled Muslim Americans internalize the state gaze through self-censure and modified dress (similarity 0.80)
• A ten-year-old child internalized the terrorist label as her identity (similarity 0.80)
• Racialized religious signifiers trigger hostile surveillance interactions with state and citizens (similarity 0.80)
• Racialization denies Muslim Americans the individuality that American citizenship requires (similarity 0.80)
• Surveillance pressure to represent an entire collective erodes hijabi women’s individuality (similarity 0.80)
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim Americans the individuality citizenship requires. (similarity 0.80)
• American-born Muslim women are assaulted for being recognizably Muslim (similarity 0.79)
• Muslims in the United States endure discrimination in their everyday lives (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racialized surveillance gets internalized by Muslim American children as self-discipline #corroborates (0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 546
• Surveilled Muslim Americans internalize the state gaze through self-censure and modified dress #corroborates (0.80)
• Surveillance fear makes Muslims internalize discipline and self-police #corroborates (0.75)
• Hostile public scrutiny becomes internalized as the architecture of Muslim American identity #corroborates (0.70)
• Anti-Muslim prejudice shapes Muslim-American identity formation from within #expands (0.60) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 709
• Most surveilled Muslim Americans respond with self-discipline rather than resistance #expands (0.55)
• Muslims in the United States endure discrimination in their everyday lives #expands (0.40) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 32
• Performing Americanness forces Muslims to downplay or conceal their faith #expands (0.35) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 343