People marked as suspects continuously calculate how their bodies are perceived.

Evidence

Aziz censors who he spends time with because he wants to downplay his religious identity when possible. Aziz openly acknowledges he spends time and energy calculating his behaviors and actions in front of his fellow colleagues. This is something that Americans whose bodies are not cast as suspect do not have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. Muslim men and women, on the other hand, expend a lot of energy and time thinking about how their bodies are perceived by their fellow citizens. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 425

Categorization

• XREF: The body-as-suspect theme echoes the reader’s guiding question on how surveillance lands on bodies and parallels the racialization literature (Beydoun, Rana) on embodied suspicion. — connects to: Every conforming action doubles as an unconscious status signal readable by others. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 195