Studying the surveillance of Muslim Americans enables an understanding of how their religious identity undergoes racialization. Racialization is a theoretical framework that has been increasingly used to explain the fluidity and malleability of racial identity. … Racialization allows scholars to accurately capture the myriad of ways groups experience marginalization. The use of this concept also permits scholars to uncover the various spaces where racial experiences occur and to contextualize these experiences.

DEFINE: Defines racialization as a theoretical framework capturing the fluidity and malleability of racial identity, specifically applied to how religious identity undergoes racialization through surveillance. XREF: Connects to broader critical race theory and surveillance studies literature on how state monitoring writes racial categories onto religious groups.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 65