Small bodily markers enforced the boundaries that enabled monstrous Others

Evidence

This suggests that community members had a strong sense of who they were and who, or what, they were not. Ethnogenesis organized social boundaries, offering “categories by which one might assert who belongs and who does not.” Even an act as minor as a haircut could challenge one’s membership in a social community, a unit that suggested racial categories, something that played an instrumental role in the manufacturing of monsters. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 89

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Freire’s original pedagogy relegated animals to ahistorical, non-becoming Others. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1015