The surveillance industry’s need for targets drives the racialization of Muslim bodies

Evidence

There are political, economic, and social motivations behind the process of racialization. For example, the need to maintain a surveillance industry is driven by the idea that terrorism is one of the greatest threats to Americans. This surveillance industry needs bodies to watch and monitor; therefore racializing a Muslim body as a potential terrorist becomes a necessity to keep the surveillance industry well resourced. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 458

Categorization

• XREF: A political-economy mechanism linking racialization to industrial self-interest — echoes other readings of securitization-as-industry. — connects to: Surveillance itself racializes target groups into a suspicious race — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 75; COINTELPRO surveillance methods were redeployed to racialize Arab Americans as terrorists — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 249; Mass state surveillance laws target white citizens and Muslims with unequal public scrutiny — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 570
• SEED: Article angle: the surveillance industrial complex manufactures its own enemy subjects to justify its budget.