Focusing on culture displaces material colonial history while producing racialized figures.

Evidence

What is written out of the story of the overly generous European and recalcitrant and ungrateful Muslims, and what makes it possible for so many people to believe in these figures? In other words, what does the focus on culture displace as well as produce? — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 279

Categorization

• XREF: This encapsulates the book’s core thesis developed across the chapter and threads to earlier chapters on how culture talk masks racialized statecraft.