Muslim and Black coalition-building deepened shared understanding of intersecting racisms.

Evidence

Although Black and Muslim identities overlap intimately in the demographics of France, the United States, and places beyond and in between, anti-Blackness and Islamophobia are distinct branches of bigotry. Yet young Desi Maher’s trenchant observation highlights the way in which both existences are ascribed deviance on account of their racialized identities. In the same fashion that law enforcement, and the judicial and carceral institutions that orbit and abet it, assign criminalized threat to Blackness, the War on Terror and its central purveyors assign suspicion of terrorism to Muslim bodies. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Both are cultures embedded within government institutions. Both have preexisting narratives and propagate stereotypes based on understanding a people in flat, damaging, and subhuman terms, stories that are then institutionalized at every level of public and private organizations, institutions, and agencies. These stories are manifested in seemingly benign decisions or routine functions that bring about a discriminatory end, and sometimes through actions whose explicit intention is to bring about a discriminatory end. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 130 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

While white women rarely physically assaulted black male slaves, they tortured and persecuted black females. Their alliance with white men on the common ground of racism enabled them to ignore the anti-woman impulse that also motivated attacks on black women. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Migration and hostility forced Black migrants to forge cross-cultural political organizations.; American officials read educated Muslims as a racially distinct civilized breed apart.; The Muslim ban extended anti-black racism to Somali and Sudanese immigrants. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 454 (+14 more)

Related

• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobia and anti-black racism share a kindred source and common targets. (similarity 0.83)
• Anti-black racism and Islamophobia fuse to intensify policing of black Muslims. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamophobia operates as a racial formation, not merely religious prejudice (similarity 0.81)
• Resistance to the bans built unprecedented cross-racial coalitions (similarity 0.81)
• Islam functions for Muslims today as race did for black males in the 1970s (similarity 0.81)
• Black American Muslims suffer compounded vulnerability from converging anti-Black racism and Islamophobia (similarity 0.81)
• Islamophobia and racial prejudice are entangled in distinct ways across Western contexts (similarity 0.80)
• Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable (similarity 0.80)
• Depicting the Other’s politics as sexualized madness marks them as an inferior race (similarity 0.80)
• State-perpetuated fear racializes Muslim bodies as terrorist enemies (similarity 0.80)
• Muslim America’s narrative is rooted in blackness, not Arab identity (similarity 0.80)
• Shared connection to Islam, not color, now anchors Muslim racialization (similarity 0.80)
• Islamophobia has coalesced Muslims into a distinct racial group and Islam into a race. (similarity 0.80)
• Gendered Muslim stereotypes are mutually constitutive and deny both sexes agency. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #corroborates (0.65) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• Structural Islamophobia and structural racism share embedded institutional stereotypes #corroborates (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 130
• White women allied with white men on shared racism against Black women #exemplifies (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 119
• Islamophobia and racial prejudice are entangled in distinct ways across Western contexts #expands (0.55) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 64
• Islamophobia is increasingly theorized as a form of racism rather than mere religious prejudice #corroborates (0.50)
• Comparing Muslims to blacks erases that African Americans are the largest American-born Muslim group #complicates (0.50)