Global events abroad shape domestic racial hierarchies in ways U.S.-centric accounts miss

Evidence

Moreover, some commentators in the United States have often treated American borders as concrete barriers. Globalization (and colonialism before it) calls this assumption into question. How, for example, are we to understand the devastation of Asian and Middle Eastern lands sending refugees to America and effecting Muslim, Asian, and Arab populations here in the context of a racial hierarchy that often meets these actions with silences? A worse development would be to globalize understandings of race based on the particular experience of the U.S. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 67

Categorization

• QUESTION: This shows global displacements (refugee flows) feed American Islam’s heterogeneity without a shared homeland narrative, directly relevant to the MOC question about whether a single territorial anchor is needed for identity inversion.
• XREF: connects to: National racial histories exceed their borders to shape global configurations — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 354; Racial modalities rise to global dominance at specific historical conjunctions — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 355; US imperialism abroad and domestic counterterrorism form one interconnected racial system — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 22 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• National racial histories exceed their borders to shape global configurations #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 354
• International racisms cross-pollinate and transform their targets across borders #corroborates (0.85)
• Arab Americans’ racial exclusion from whiteness tracks the rise of US global empire #exemplifies (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 248
• Racialization mechanisms are porous across internal and external targets #expands (0.85)
• US imperialism abroad and domestic counterterrorism form one interconnected racial system #exemplifies (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 22
• Foreign wars drive domestic racialization of perceived enemy populations #expands (0.80)
• The global racial system shaped Muslims’ place in the U.S. #exemplifies (0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 98
• Globalized racism circulates racialized regionalisms imagining the Muslim world as interconnected. #exemplifies (0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 46
• Racial modalities rise to global dominance at specific historical conjunctions #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 355