Racecraft is a reusable tool racism repurposes to racialize new groups.

Evidence

As has been argued throughout this article, racism repurposes its racecraft and tailors it to specific groups. As a result, we see commonalities in the racism experienced by these groups. The attempts to maintain residential segregation continues with Blacks and Muslims routinely steered away from white neighborhoods. Move-in violence continues, as does racial harassment. Hundreds of incidents are reported each year to civil rights and state agencies. Violence directed at Muslims is familiar and can also be spectacular and extreme. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 480

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explicit statement of Choudhury’s racecraft mechanism — the load-bearing definitional move the whole legal argument rests on.
• XREF: Directly comparable to Aziz’s claim that the racialization of Muslims recycles earlier racial templates; her version stresses repurposing rather than origins. — connects to: The same racecraft techniques are retooled against Muslims and Blacks across panics — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 44; Racism deploys one set of racecraft tools against every subordinated minority — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 455; Racecraft is the toolkit that makes racist treatment appear logically grounded in race. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 520 (+1 more)
• SEED: Article angle: ‘The same racecraft, new target’ — tracing the shared grammar of anti-Black and anti-Muslim boundary-policing.

Broader Connections

• Racecraft is the toolkit that makes racist treatment appear logically grounded in race. #expands (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 520
• Tools of racecraft honed on Blacks and Native Americans get retargeted at Muslims #corroborates (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 41