Racialized everyday space fertilizes Islamophobia’s growth

Evidence

The racialization of everyday space, which is a striking feature of the war on terror, is linked through colonial practices to a neoimperial mindset epitomized by the George W. Bush administration in the years after 2001. This linkage provides fertile ground for the growth of Islamophobia. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 269

Categorization

• XREF: Gives the reader a causal bridge: the spatial-racial control mechanism is what fiction must represent or reproduce when contesting versus reinforcing Islamophobia. — connects to: Anti-mosque activism parallels suburban resistance to racialized public housing — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 493