Muslim women manage their hijab’s color to prevent racialization of their bodies.

Evidence

Muslim women such as Maryam’s friend and Ayesha refused to take off the hijab but instead tried to influence its representation in order to prevent it from racializing their bodies. While some women told me they chose colorful hijabs in order to match the clothes they were wearing, many women admitted they were afraid they appeared grim and oppressed in black hijabs. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 374

Categorization

• QUESTION: This suggests color choice is a site of knowing the racialized optics — worth chasing how women articulate what ‘black equals oppressed’ encodes vs. what black clothing means for everyone else.
• XREF: Connects to the tattoo/race-as-visible-marker theme and to how phenotype is read as threatening regardless of intent — same logic as men’s beards being read as markers.