The vampire, mummy, and zombie all originated in racialized anti-Muslim discourse.

Evidence

Although Black and Muslim identities overlap intimately in the demographics of France, the United States, and places beyond and in between, anti-Blackness and Islamophobia are distinct branches of bigotry. Yet young Desi Maher’s trenchant observation highlights the way in which both existences are ascribed deviance on account of their racialized identities. In the same fashion that law enforcement, and the judicial and carceral institutions that orbit and abet it, assign criminalized threat to Blackness, the War on Terror and its central purveyors assign suspicion of terrorism to Muslim bodies. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists.; Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119

Related

• Vampires, mummies, and zombies trace to anti-Muslim and anti-African fears (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics (similarity 0.83)
• Depicting the Other’s politics as sexualized madness marks them as an inferior race (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-Muslim jokes racialize Muslim bodies and mark them as untrusted (similarity 0.81)
• Racialization casts whites as individuals and Muslims as an undifferentiated mass. (similarity 0.79)
• Islamophobia reduces diverse Muslim individuals to a blanket presumption of terror suspicion (similarity 0.79)
• War on Terror discourse makes suspecting Muslims feel rationally normal (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim sentiment predated and undergirded the War on Terror (similarity 0.78)
• The War on Terror fused the concepts of Muslim and terrorist. (similarity 0.78)
• Real-world Muslims today are described with monster and undead vocabulary (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #expands (0.55)
• Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia assign deviance through parallel racializing logics #complicates (0.50) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1119