Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans

Evidence

This act of denying Muslims their American identity is a racializing act and is accomplished through hypersurveillance. The belief that to be American is to be white is resurfacing as Muslims are made to feel they are incapable of being loyal to America because their bodies are equated with terror and their values are somehow antithetical to Western or American ones. In many ways, it feels as if America is revisiting its past: the early twentieth century, when South Asian men desperately fought for naturalization were denied it because their religious identity situated them as incapable of sharing Western values. The act of racialized surveillance is also an act that strips one of citizenship. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslim Americans are racialized even when visibly white, so racialization must include cultural traits — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 88; Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104; Muslim American men feared interviewing because hypersurveillance made them distrust strangers — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 685 (+11 more)

Related

• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship (similarity 0.94)
• Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans. (similarity 0.93)
• Mass surveillance based on racial stereotypes weakens democracy without preventing terrorism. (similarity 0.91)
• Even Muslim civil rights organizations are surveilled and discredited by the state (similarity 0.88)
• Surveillance targets Muslim Americans based on religious identity regardless of citizenship (similarity 0.87)
• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. (similarity 0.87)
• Surveillance racializes Muslims by casting them as threats rather than protected citizens. (similarity 0.87)
• Muslim Americans are racialized even when visibly white, so racialization must include cultural traits (similarity 0.87)
• Muslim Americans are excluded from full citizenship through surveillance and monitoring (similarity 0.87)
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim Americans the individuality citizenship requires. (similarity 0.87)
• The War on Terror racialized Muslim bodies to justify their surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• Racialization denies Muslim Americans the individuality that American citizenship requires (similarity 0.86)
• State hypersurveillance disempowers Muslim men and lowers their political participation (similarity 0.86)
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims (similarity 0.86)
• FBI surveillance drives Muslim congregations to self-police and Americanize (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Muslim religious identity becomes a racial category through surveillance. #corroborates (0.88)
• Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims #corroborates (0.80)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship #expands (0.65) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 658
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #expands (0.50)