Racialized surveillance denies Muslim children their individuality and citizenship privileges

Evidence

The accountability for all Muslims felt by Muslim women who wear the hijab is so powerful that it can have an impact on Muslim children as well. In a post-­9/11 society, Muslim children are growing up with the awareness that their religious identity is under constant scrutiny. Reema’s statement reveals the pressure Muslim kids are placed under because of this public surveillance. They are raised feeling a responsibility to demonstrate they are good people, because it will counter the negative associations that the public has with Islam. 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. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 546

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Related

• Class privilege does not shield Muslim Americans from racialized surveillance (similarity 0.92)
• Racialized surveillance gets internalized by Muslim American children as self-discipline (similarity 0.90)
• Racialization denies Muslim Americans the individuality that American citizenship requires (similarity 0.90)
• Racialized surveillance denies Muslim Americans the individuality citizenship requires. (similarity 0.89)
• Everyday harassment from strangers makes Muslim American children internalize illegitimacy (similarity 0.86)
• Hostile public scrutiny becomes internalized as the architecture of Muslim American identity (similarity 0.85)
• Hypersurveillance itself is the mechanism that racializes Muslim Americans (similarity 0.82)
• Citizenship itself is racialized, protecting some citizens while criminalizing Muslim Americans. (similarity 0.81)
• Surveillance burdens hijab-wearing Muslim women with stress and eroded individuality (similarity 0.81)
• Hijab-wearing Muslim women feel they must act as poster children for all Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Racialized surveillance itself strips Muslims of substantive citizenship (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim Americans are excluded from full citizenship through surveillance and monitoring (similarity 0.81)
• Citizenship status does not protect Muslim Americans from state surveillance. (similarity 0.81)
• Surveillance pressure to represent an entire collective erodes hijabi women’s individuality (similarity 0.81)
• No US religious community endures such simultaneous embrace and surveillance (similarity 0.81)