Through conversations with Muslim men and women, I was able to uncover how their lives slowly transformed from being viewed as marginally American as a result of their ethnic identities to being seen as anti-American and unwanted because of their religious identity. The stories and testimonies of ordinary American citizens in this book reflect how cultural and political shifts can create newly racialized meanings in a society that is organized along racial lines.

XREF: Connects to sociological work on racialization and how religious identity becomes racialized, similar to processes described in studies of Islamophobia and secularism.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 150