Fear of demographic change targets women’s reproductive bodies

Evidence

However, Muslim women also become victims of broader “fears” over shifting race relations, perceptions of racial discrimination, and a very specific fear of nonwhite minorities. Women give birth to the children of these minority communities, and thus their bodies are directly linked to shifting demographic balances as well as the bogus link to terrorism for Muslims specifically. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 529

Categorization

• XREF: Reproductive-body scapegoating parallels the demographic-replacement anxieties in the reader’s immodesty/complaints project — bodies of women as vehicles of feared population change.
• SEED: A comparative angle: how the ‘she will birth the enemy’ trope recurs across anti-minority panics, from anti-black slavery fears to the ‘great replacement’ to anti-Muslim panic.