Racialization casts whites as individuals and Muslims as an undifferentiated mass.

Evidence

These competing racial constructions, or “racializations,” are built upon the notion that whites are always innocuous and self-directed individuals. Muslims, by contrast, are a faceless mass, all tied to an ominous monolith that is imagined in the form of the terror network of the day or the rival civilization that they all belong to. This image is rooted in the foundational tropes that the law, and its political and popular co-conspirators, has assigned to “whiteness” and “Islam.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 938

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concise statement of the twin racializations — white individualism versus Muslim monolithic mass — that anchor the book’s argument.
• XREF: Mirrors the us/them and monolith-vs-individual logic that likely runs through Iftikhar’s account of how Muslims are flattened into a global category.