The same racecraft techniques are retooled against Muslims and Blacks across panics

Evidence

Based on Critical Discourse Studies, it describes eight discursive strategies that are used to produce common racist tropes. It then uses Professor I. Bennett Capers’ work Reading Back, Reading Black to “read” these distilled and abstracted tropes back into specific texts: the transcripts of a hearing for a motion to enjoin the opening of a mosque during the anti-sharia law panic5 and an anti-CRT opinion published by the panic’s chief architect, Christopher Rufo. The point is to show that racecraft and the techniques of racism are the same when used against Muslims in the anti-sharia panic as they are when used against Blacks and in the anti-CRT panics. Racists learn how to retool their strategies from one group to the next. Islamicization or the racialization of Muslims (and those assumed to be Muslims or the Islamicized) overlaps with the subordination of other groups. In sum, they are part of the racial hierarchy: the Islamicized are subject to the same racist strategies as other groups. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 44

Categorization

• XREF: Builds directly on the author’s core thesis that Islam has become a race via racecraft; parallels Aziz’s ‘Racial Muslim’ claim that racialization makes standard race law applicable to Muslims. — connects to: Anti-sharia and anti-CRT panics deploy identical racecraft tactics against different targets — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 445; Tools of racecraft honed on Blacks and Native Americans get retargeted at Muslims — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 41; The same racecraft tools operate against every subordinated minority across centuries — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 455 (+7 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies the mechanistic core of the racecraft argument: racism runs on retoolable discursive strategies, not group-specific ideologies.

Broader Connections

• Racecraft is a reusable tool racism repurposes to racialize new groups. #expands (0.93) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 480
• Anti-sharia and anti-CRT panics deploy identical racecraft tactics against different targets #expands (0.92) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 445
• Tools of racecraft honed on Blacks and Native Americans get retargeted at Muslims #expands (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 41
• Racism deploys one set of racecraft tools against every subordinated minority #corroborates (0.88) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 455
• The same racecraft tools operate against every subordinated minority across centuries #expands (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 455
• Anti-sharia panics and anti-CRT panics both serve to maintain racial hierarchy. #expands (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 423
• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #corroborates (0.82) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119
• Anti-sharia panic weaponizes legal fear to racialize American Muslims #exemplifies (0.80)
• Racisms against different groups bleed into and combine with one another #qualifies (0.72)