Racialized neighborhood boundaries are violently enforced against Black and brown bodies

Evidence

Black Americans and Muslims who find themselves in places they “don’t belong” like white neighborhoods can be murdered by racist vigilantes, as happened to Trayvon Martin, Ahmaud Arbery, and Deah Barakat and Yusor and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. The boundaries of the neighborhood are violently enforced against the threat of invasion from Black and brown bodies. It is violence people justify by blaming the victims—for jogging, driving, walking their dog, and just ordinarily living in these spaces. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 490

Categorization

• XREF: Connects Muslim victimization to anti-Black racial terror — the racecraft move that fuses Islam into existing racial hierarchy. — connects to: Segregationist leaders staged mob intimidation while posing as protectors to force black homebuyers out. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 133; Racial integration was enforced by mob violence while police looked away. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 479; Racialized vigilante murder polices neighborhood boundaries against Black and Muslim bodies alike — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 490 (+18 more)
• SEED: Angle: ‘belonging’ as the legal-social boundary where religion converts into race — victim-blaming as the mechanism.

Broader Connections

• Racialized vigilante murder polices neighborhood boundaries against Black and Muslim bodies alike #corroborates (1.00) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 490
• Police patrol racialized spatial boundaries in the city, not just legal ones #corroborates (1.00) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 516
• Criminalizing black youth establishes racial boundaries before adulthood #complicates (0.90)
• Urban segregation can literally pursue invisibility of a racial group #complicates (0.90) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 433
• Racial states govern by both spatial-social restriction and criminalization #qualifies (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1690
• Racial violence and criminalization of blackness continue into the present day #expands (0.90) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 592
• The boundary defining which violence counts as genocide is itself racialized #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 251
• Blackness itself is criminalized as a threat irrespective of acts #complicates (0.80)
• States enabling racial exclusion are violent even without direct enforcement #complicates (0.80)
• Criminalizing black children establishes the boundaries of whiteness #complicates (0.80) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 426
• Challenged racial absolutism escalates violence rather than moderating it #complicates (0.80)
• Municipal boundary lines perpetuate racial and class segregation #complicates (0.80) — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 1349
• Racialized governance extends from residential and educational restrictions into criminalization and surveillance #complicates (0.80)
• Boundary-based violence protests threats to social arrangements built on those boundaries #complicates (0.70)
• Incoherent racial legislation required escalating violence to enforce #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1543