Racecraft perfected against Black Americans supplies the template for spatial exclusion of Muslims.
Evidence
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: Directly parallels Aziz’s argument in The Racial Muslim that Muslim racialization recycles the racial logics built for Black Americans. — connects to: Property racecraft perfected against Black Americans now templates anti-Muslim exclusion. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 468; Spatial racecraft against Muslims mirrors housing segregation tools honed on Black Americans — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 468; Tools of racecraft honed on Blacks and Native Americans get retargeted at Muslims — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 41 (+17 more)
- DEFINE: Fixes ‘racecraft’ as operational technique (spatial/property exclusion) rather than individual prejudice — the Fields sisters’ sense Choudhury borrows.
Broader Connections
- Property racecraft perfected against Black Americans now templates anti-Muslim exclusion.
#corroborates(1.00) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 468 - Spatial racecraft against Muslims mirrors housing segregation tools honed on Black Americans
#expands(0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 468 - Tools of racecraft honed on Blacks and Native Americans get retargeted at Muslims
#expands(0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 41 - Spatial racecraft operates identically against Black Americans and Muslims through housing and congregation bans.
#expands(0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 468 - Material racecraft invented as anti-Blackness now targets Muslim property rights
#expands(0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 328 - Muslim Americans occupy a liminal racial position above African Americans
#complicates(0.80) - Islam comes to function as a race through racecraft that erases internal ethnic differences
#complicates(0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 516 - Islamophobia operates as entrenched American race politics producing anti-Muslim racism
#complicates(0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 72 - Muslims can evade racialization by concealing religious difference
#complicates(0.80) - African American and immigrant Muslims face distinct forms of anti-Muslim racism.
#complicates(0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 117 - Racecraft is the discursive machinery that makes anti-Muslim racism seem rational
#complicates(0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 411 - Anti-Muslim racism operates through a distinct racial logic
#complicates(0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 77 - Anti-black racism and Islamophobia fuse to intensify policing of black Muslims.
#complicates(0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 453 - African American Muslims are racialized as Black before being seen as Muslim
#complicates(0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 116 - State-fostered fear racializes Muslim bodies and strips Muslim Americans of American identity
#complicates(0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 33