Bringing the Marginalized into Conversations about American Raciality - Erin Kane - Keely Gaeta - Emily Norris

AFTER THE ATTACKS ON 9 / 11 , THE UNITED STATES BECAME VERY SKEPTICAL AND JUDGEMENTAL OF PEOPLE WHO EVEN LOOKED MIDDLE EASTERN . IN A LOT OF AMERICANS ’ EYES , IF YOU WERE MUSLIM , YOU WERE THE ENEMY . IN ORDER TO MANAGE THESE “ THREATS ”, THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTED HEAVY SURVEILLANCE ; HEAVY TECHNOLOGY OF DISCIPLINING AND MANAGING THIS RACIAL POPULATION . SURVEILLANCE HAS MANY NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR TARGETED COMMUNITIES SUCH AS , SHAPING IDENTITIES OF SELF FOR THE TARGETED POPULATION AND IT INSTILLS FEAR INTO THEM . SURVEILLANCE WAS KEY TO POST - 9 / 11 CULTURE WARS . AFTER 9 / 11 , AMERICA WAS QUICK TO JUDGE ANYONE WHO WAS MUSLIM AND ASSUMED THE WORST OF THEM ; MUSLIMS WERE NOT SEEN AS HUMAN BEINGS IN THE UNITED STATES , THEY WERE INSTEAD SEEN AS DANGEROUS ENTITIES WHO WANTED THE DEMISE OF DEMOCRACY . DUE TO THE TAINTED AND FIXED VISION OF MUSLIMS IN AMERICA , ISLAMOPHOBIA EMERGED . ISLAMOPHOBIA IS AN IRRATIONAL DISLIKE OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ISLAM . THIS SYSTEMATIC MARGINALIZATION CONTINUES TO HURT MUSLIM PEOPLE TODAY MANY PEOPLE ARE DISILLUSIONED AND IF PEOPLE ARE NOT WHITE , MANY ARE QUICK TO JUDGE THEM AND VIEW THEM AS FOREIGN THREATS . UNCHANGING CULTURE . IN A POST 9 / 11 WORLD , TERRORISM HAS BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH THE MIDDLE EAST , SPECIFICALLY THOSE WHO BELONG TO THE RELIGION OF ISLAM , AT THE HANDS OF HARMFUL XENOPHOBIC U . S . RHETORIC . TERRORISM IS A MODERN CONSTRUCTION . A DOMINANT CHARACTERIZATION OF THE WORLD IS BETWEEN PREMODERN AND MODERN . ISLAM IS OFTEN SEEN IS PREMODERN , AS IT SUBSCRIBES TO A RIGID AND THE CITIZEN AND THE TERRORIST

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