Racial panic actively manufactures enemies the state can mobilize against

Evidence

In this logic, moral panics are necessary to the production of a larger peril that constructs a racial object of vilification. As a technology of terror prevention, racial panic manufactures an enemy for the state to mobilize against in the name of security. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 311

Categorization

• XREF: Builds directly on the moral panic framework already read (Cohen), and parallels the ‘manufacturing an enemy’ logic in the sacrifice reading about how social orders stabilize. — connects to: Political and economic crises are resolved through manufactured fear of racialized criminals — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 81