Racial identity shapes whether the same clothing provokes bans
Evidence
The outlawing of the burkini day in Marseille prevented a group of local Muslim women from using their local public swimming pool simply because brown Muslim women wanted to wear the same swimwear that a white woman named Nigella Lawson had worn freely without any controversy whatsoever. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 381
Categorization
- XREF: Directly extends the Beydoun-Nazir race/religion intersection and the carceral logic found in his US work to a European setting, exactly the cross-country link this capstone needs. — connects to: Misrecognition of minority identities inflicts real damage on those so mirrored.; Religious identity can be racialized when signifiers trigger profiling; Ordinary fashion choices become racial markers on hijabi bodies — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 412 (+8 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 381
Related
- Cultural and religious practices can racialize a body just as skin tone does (similarity 0.83)
- Muslim identity gets racialized through names and clothing, not only skin tone (similarity 0.82)
- Muslim men can be racialized by ethnicity alone, not only by disclosed religion (similarity 0.81)
- Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group. (similarity 0.81)
- Ordinary fashion choices become racial markers on hijabi bodies (similarity 0.81)
- Religious identity can be racialized when signifiers trigger profiling (similarity 0.81)
- The hijab functions like skin tone by marking bodies as racial others (similarity 0.80)
- The hijab signals foreignness so strongly it overrides ethnicity and skin tone (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Muslim racism collapses diverse names, skin tones, dress, and nations into one imagined enemy. (similarity 0.80)
- The Hijab Ban solidified the idea that Muslim and French are clashing identities (similarity 0.80)
- Muslim names alone can racialize phenotypically white people (similarity 0.80)
- Racialization operates through cultural traits and social interactions, not only physical cues. (similarity 0.80)
- Courts racialized Muslim identity using skin color and the one-drop rule. (similarity 0.80)
- The hijab overrides whiteness as a racializing agent on any wearer. (similarity 0.79)
- People who seem white can be raced non-white on the basis of Islam alone. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Ordinary fashion choices become racial markers on hijabi bodies
#corroborates(0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 412 - Cultural and religious practices can racialize a body just as skin tone does
#corroborates(0.85) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 89 - The hijab rather than skin tone triggers racializing surveillance of Muslim women
#corroborates(0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 292 - Religious identity can be racialized when signifiers trigger profiling
#corroborates(0.75) - Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group.
#expands(0.70) - An ethnic minority identity invites questions while a Muslim identity invites hostile expulsion
#corroborates(0.70) - Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic
#expands(0.65) - Surveillance justified by religious identity constitutes racialization of Muslims
#expands(0.60) - Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics
#complicates(0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119