Islamophobic scapegoating thrives across globalized and nationalist phases of capitalism

Evidence

Islamophobic scapegoating is one of the few growth industries that has survived the shift from the globalized world of the late 1990s and early 2000s to the era of renewed petty nationalism and rhetorical protectionism since the economic crash of 2008. It serves its purpose to distract in both of these phases of capitalism. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 556

Categorization

• QUESTION: Useful mechanism claim: scapegoating is a constant function of capitalism regardless of phase — worth pressing how that sits with novels that contest vs. reinforce.
• SEED: The continuity of scapegoating across economic regimes is a strong spine for an essay on why no single economic narrative captures anti-Muslim racism.
• XREF: connects to: Islamophobia must be analyzed within general racism tied to capitalism — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 46; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”