Orientalism operates as a racial project serving white supremacist empire.

Evidence

The former, we know from Malcolm X, always stands for “purity” and “freedom” and “modern civilization.” And the latter, as broken down by Edward Said, incessantly represents “war” and “violence” and “terrorism.” Orientalism, we see through the prism of the Islamophobia that prevails in the world today, was always and remains a distinctly racial project built upon the imperial designs of white supremacists. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 939

Categorization

• DEFINE: Recasts Said’s Orientalism through a racial-prism lens, useful framing for the global synthesis.
• XREF: connects to: Orientalism operates like the creation of Blackness as projected white-American fear — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 217