The Arab terrorist figure predates and evolves into the Islamic terrorist.

Evidence

Drawing on the work of scholars in Arab American studies, I outline my argument that the economic, political, and social crises of the late 1960s and early 1970s created the conditions for the “Arab terrorist” as a domestic and global formation, which would then evolve into the “Islamic terrorist” in later decades. I refer to this new process of terrorist racial formation as terrorcraft, which I explore in greater depth in a forthcoming book. At any rate, US Orientalism and modernization theory in the postwar era served as the basis for the racialization of international and domestic threats. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 97

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘terrorcraft,’ the author’s term for terrorist racial formation and sequel to ‘racecraft.’
• QUESTION: The evolution claim is asserted (ch. 2) but mechanism detail is deferred - core of reader’s MOC thread to verify.
• XREF: connects to: Economic crises of the 1960s-70s produced the Arab terrorist figure as a moral panic. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 93; The Palestinian terrorist trope preceded and enabled the Muslim terrorist trope.; The terrorist and the migrant fuse into one racialized Muslim type. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 33 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The Palestinian terrorist trope preceded and enabled the Muslim terrorist trope. #corroborates (0.95)
• The Cold War-era terrorist archetype was Arab and Palestinian, not Muslim #contradicts (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 619
• The War on Terror fused the concepts of Muslim and terrorist. #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 935
• The terrorist and the migrant fuse into one racialized Muslim type. #expands (0.75) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 33
• The figure of the Muslim monster predates and shapes the modern Muslim stereotype #qualifies (0.75)
• Terrorism racialization evolved from Arabs to Iranians and South Asians from the late 1960s #qualifies (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 215