The Arab Mind’s homogenizing caricature was instrumentalized to design US torture.

Evidence

Even today, and as I demonstrate in Chapter 3, variations of these notions abound. For instance, books like Raphael Patai’s The Arab Mind, which was used by the US military to devise the torture techniques used in Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, are a reassertion of Homo arabicus. It is based on the homogenization of Arabs, who are supposedly all of one mind. … The practice of torture enacted at CIA “black sites” all over the world then instrumentalized this racist caricature to create regimes of oppression. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 206

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US officials instrumentalized racist Arab caricatures to design torture regimes — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 194; Sexualized torture marks the Arab male as emasculated and outside humanity — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 177; A racist ethnography text directly shaped US torture techniques (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• A racist ethnography text directly shaped US torture techniques #corroborates (0.95)
• The clash-of-civilizations lens recodes sexualized torture as generic information-gathering. #expands (0.85) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 155
• Anti-Muslim polemic literature supplied ideological ammunition for torture at Abu Ghraib. #corroborates (0.85) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 536
• Sexualized torture marks the Arab male as emasculated and outside humanity #expands (0.80) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 177
• Multiculturalist representations of Arabs actually legitimize racism and torture #expands (0.80) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 305
• Depicting Islam as violent ideology legitimizes torture of Muslims to American audiences #exemplifies (0.75)
• Cultural conditions rather than rogue individuals produced Abu Ghraib torture #corroborates (0.75) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 151
• Abu Ghraib torture was framed as individual aberration rather than institutional culture #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 264