Racialization denies Muslim Americans the individuality that American citizenship requires

Evidence

Racialized surveillance can become deeply internalized when Muslim American children are taught to self-discipline and self-surveil. At a young age, Muslim American youth are learning they are not like other American children but are held to different standards. One of the consequences of this racialization is the denial of individuality. Muslim Americans are denied their individuality in public spaces and are forced to navigate society within the confines of an externally imposed collective identity. Because individualism is a key characteristic of American citizenship, when people are denied their individuality but instead are treated as a collective, they do not enjoy the privileges that citizenship should afford. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 347

Categorization

• SEED: The ‘denial of individuality vs. American citizenship’ framing is a sharp essay angle on how surveillance hollows out citizenship.
• XREF: connects to: Islamic identity rendered immigrants non-white in citizenship cases regardless of legal test — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 154; The going-Muslim trope denies assimilated Muslims any genuine integration into America — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 608