Wearing the hijab triggers the perpetual-interrogation question of where one is from

Evidence

After she started wearing the hijab, Aziza began to frequently encounter the question, “Where are you really from?” when meeting people who wanted to know her ethnic identity. The terrorist attacks incited more hostile encounters for Aziza that related to the hijab, such as her high school bus driver chastising her religion. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 140

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Where are you really from?’ is the classic microaggression of racialization — connects to the reader’s map of how suspicion marks bodies as perpetually foreign.