Muslim women are racialized as threats to values while men as threats to security
Evidence
These experiences reveal that the United States is a racialized social system that now allocates different rewards and privileges based on a Muslim identity. It is important to note that a racialized society creates unique experiences based on gender. Muslim American men and women encounter differential experiences in this racialized social system that mark Muslim women as a threat to American values and Muslim men as a threat to national security. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 346
Categorization
- XREF: Directly answers the reader’s guiding question on gender differentiation; connects to the reader’s map slot on how surveillance racializes Muslim Americans differently by gender.
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this gendered split (women = values threat, men = security threat) appear consistently across her interview data, or in specific subgroups?