Whether one gets stopped depends on identity, not actual behavior

Evidence

Anyone could be considered suspect based on these behaviors, yet my interviews revealed that not everyone is routinely stopped and searched in airports. Despite the critiques brought against airport security practices, TSA and its programs continue to operate under a multibillion-dollar budget. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 167

Categorization

• XREF: The gap between facially-neutral criteria and who actually gets stopped is the core racialization mechanism the reader is tracking — this is the empirical payoff of the chapter’s argument. — connects to: the MOC “The Viral Refinery: How Preexisting Fringe Fears Get Smelted Into Mainstream Reality”