Media and scholarship doubly erase black American Muslims’ existence and voices.

Evidence

Donna Auston of Rutgers University, one of the most trenchant voices examining the intersection of Islamophobia and anti-black racism, characterizes the weaponized anti-black racism unfolding on the streets, and the Islamophobia proliferating privately and structurally, as “intimate bedfellows.” In “Mapping the Intersections of Islamophobia and #BlackLivesMatter,” Auston argues, “Dominant narratives … in both media and scholarly literature tend to doubly efface the existence and voices of black American Muslims—even in this moment when black bodies are at the very center of the unrest. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 452

Categorization

• DEFINE: Auston’s ‘intimate bedfellows’ and ‘doubly efface’ are load-bearing conceptual terms for the convergence thesis.
• XREF: Auston’s convergence thesis is the named source we can trace against Rana’s state apparatus work and Selod’s surveillance work. — connects to: The ‘Muslims are the new blacks’ claim erases black Muslims’ longstanding existence. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 419; Non-black Muslims celebrate black Muslims in ways that erase their blackness. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 420; Ali’s funeral replicated the erasure black Muslims have long endured. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 418 (+7 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 452

Broader Connections

• Black American Muslims suffer compounded vulnerability from converging anti-Black racism and Islamophobia #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460
• Muslim Americans occupy a liminal racial position above African Americans #contradicts (0.60)
• Comparing Muslims to blacks erases that African Americans are the largest American-born Muslim group #complicates (0.55)