Whites remain individuals while Arabs are read as violent groups

Evidence

When racial profiling becomes so thoroughly recast as bureaucracy, it becomes easy to miss the inclining rather than declining significance of race. U.S. authorities did not go around detaining white men simply because Timothy McVeigh, a white man, had blown up the Oklahoma City buildings, legal scholar Leti Volpp comments, since whites remain individuals while Arabs and Muslims are understood only as a group with the group characteristic of violence. Historically, it is not hard to trace the racial basis to the profiling practised in the ‘war on terror.’ Before the Gulf War, Canadian and American Arabs and Muslims were the subjects, both in the media and in scholarship, of what Edward Said described as ‘a trafficking in expert Middle East lore’: ‘All roads lead to the bazaar; Arabs only understand force; brutality and violence are part of Arab civilization; Islam is an intolerant, segregationist, ‘medieval,’ fanatic, cruel, anti-woman religion.’ — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 89

Categorization

• XREF: The individual-versus-group attribution contrast is the causal-correspondence-bias structure from social psychology. — connects to: White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists
• QUESTION: Worth chasing the original Leti Volpp source for the exact McVeigh comparison and its reception.