Property racecraft perfected against Black Americans now templates anti-Muslim exclusion.

Evidence

The experience of spatial segregation of Black communities even in states and localities in which Jim Crow was not the law is well known. What is less well understood is that other groups, including Muslims, face similar discrimination with regard to property: being restricted from suburban spaces, housing, and community gatherings. This Part of the article offers two property examples of similar spatial racecraft and property lawfare used against both Black Americans and Muslims: housing discrimination and the activism against public housing and mosques. The first shared experience is that of being denied integration into majority white suburbs and facing violence when such attempts are made. The second shared experience is the prohibition against congregating. Even if some minorities move into white-dominant neighborhoods, those neighborhoods may not welcome visible, physical structures that represent the existence of minorities in appreciable numbers—structures like public housing and mosques. Muslims and Blacks have experienced social violence and segregation in residential housing, and both public housing and mosques have been met with vociferous community resistance and NIMBYism (where “NIMBY” is short for “Not in My Back Yard”). The racecraft that was developed and perfected against Black Americans in the context of property forms the template of the racecraft used against Muslims and other groups. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 468

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s MOC thread: spatial/temporal segregation as a domestic standing claim (territory-based) that Black and Muslim groups share, but one that coexists with Muslims’ fragmented homelands; also pays off earlier ch53 material-racecraft claim. — connects to: Tools of racecraft honed on Blacks and Native Americans get retargeted at Muslims — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 41; Material racecraft invented as anti-Blackness now targets Muslim property rights — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 328; Spatial racecraft against Muslims mirrors housing segregation tools honed on Black Americans — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 468 (+3 more)
• ADDENDUM: Extends article 3’s thesis (material/territorial racism) to housing and NIMBYist property lawfare shared between Blacks and Muslims.

Broader Connections

• Racecraft is the discursive machinery that makes anti-Muslim racism seem rational #corroborates (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 411
• Anti-Muslim racial templates were transferred to justify African slavery #contradicts (0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 190
• American racism has recently recoded blacks and Jews into Arabs and Muslims #exemplifies (0.75) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 565