Reified culture discourse masks underlying ideologies of racial purity and hierarchy.

Evidence

This reified use of culture often cloaks racial ideologies of separation and biological notions of purity that ultimately are threatened by the possibility of miscegenation. It is in this sense that the anthropological use of ethnology as a form of racialized knowledge production is centrally complicit in constructing the ideological edifice of racial di√erence and hierarchy. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 909

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the additive of scholarship on Islamophobia in the reader’s existing body of work on moral panics over dress and identity signaling.
• XREF: connects to: Conviviality theory loses critical force when divorced from state racism and hierarchy. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 5; Postwar UNESCO race statements legitimized racial mixture as national ideology — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1167; Critical Discourse Analysis exposes latent beliefs disguised as neutral metaphors. (+5 more)