Hypersurveillance racializes Muslim identity producing a double consciousness

Evidence

Muslim Americans experience what DuBois referred to as “double consciousness” in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)—where they are incapable of being one self but instead are made up of multiple selves because they have to shift their identities in public—because of their hypersurveillance in spaces like airports. This inability to be one’s true self, to even speak one’s native language out of fear of surveillance, reflects the psychological wage Muslim Americans experience because of their racialization. Thus flying while Muslim creates undue anxiety for Muslim Americans. They must navigate airports carefully in order to avoid discipline from the state or their fellow passengers. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 237

Categorization

• DEFINE: Extends DuBois’s double consciousness to Muslim Americans, defining the interior experience of surveillance-driven identity splitting that the reader flagged as prime visceral material.
• XREF: Anchors the religion-vs-race question by showing faith becoming a racialized identity via surveillance; connects to the reader’s Beydoun replacement project. — connects to: The racial gaze subjects the observed to a humiliating double-consciousness — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 878; Double consciousness fractures identity by measuring oneself through others’ contemptuous eyes. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 267