Globalized racism circulates racialized regionalisms imagining the Muslim world as interconnected.

Evidence

Although the ethnographic method is at the core of much of the cultural and material analysis in this book, it is not a conventional ethnography. Instead, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork to weave approaches to political economy, visual and cultural analysis, history, and critical race studies into an interdisciplinary study of the complex issues I elaborate. Specifically, I argue that conceptions of globalized racism are based in the circulation of specific racialized regionalisms that imagine the Muslim world as connected and interdependent. This, in turn, is imagined as part of a geography that connects migratory networks of Muslim countries to the metropoles of Northern countries in the global economy. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 46

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the concept of racial formation (Omi and Winant) and to how categories like ‘the Muslim’ operate analogously to ‘the Orient’ in Saidian thought. — connects to: Anti-Muslim racism collapses diverse names, skin tones, dress, and nations into one imagined enemy.; Global events abroad shape domestic racial hierarchies in ways U.S.-centric accounts miss — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 67