Donna Auston of Rutgers University, one of the most trenchant voices examining the intersection of Islamophobia and anti-black racism, characterizes the weaponized anti-black racism unfolding on the streets, and the Islamophobia proliferating privately and structurally, as “intimate bedfellows.” In “Mapping the Intersections of Islamophobia and #BlackLivesMatter,” Auston argues, “Dominant narratives . . . in both media and scholarly literature tend to doubly efface the existence and voices of black American Muslims—even in this moment when black bodies are at the very center of the unrest.

DEFINE: The 'intimate bedfellows' metaphor frames two oppressions as intertwined, while 'double effacement' names how media and scholarship erase black American Muslims from both narratives. Builds on: "African American Muslims are marginalized despite being the largest Muslim American plurality"

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 452