Muslim racialization operates through visual perception and performed characteristics across discursive regimes

Evidence

I elaborate a racial phenomenology in which the Muslim is understood not only as a totalized biological body but also as a cultural and social entity constructed within a number of discursive regimes, including those of terrorism, fundamentalism, patriarchy, sexism, and labor migration. By invoking this idea of racial phenomenology, I examine bodies that appear in the visual register as characteristics of race and as performances of characteristics that are read as racial. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 97

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘racial phenomenology’ as an analytic lens for how Muslim bodies are visually read as racial.
• XREF: Connects to Ahmed and Alcoff’s phenomenological approaches to the racialized body. — connects to: The moment of being mistaken for Muslim is a direct lesson in racialization’s power; Islam’s racialization shifted from visible markers to belief itself as stealth fears grew — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 262; Islamicization operates independently of actual Muslim belief or visible identity markers — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 316 (+1 more)