In Forever Suspect, I share the stories of Muslim American men and women, detailing what it is like to be Muslim in contemporary America, and situate Muslim American men's and women's experiences within a sociopolitical context of surveillance society. The participants I interviewed were largely professional and strongly middleto upper-middle-class men and women. Their stories highlight how socioeconomic status does not protect one from racialization within the context of war. While much of the scholarship on September 11th highlights the global motivations and consequences of the War on Terror (Razack 2008; Maira 2009; Kibria 2011; Rana 2011; Kumar 2012), Forever Suspect is a part of a growing trend in scholarship on Muslims (Cainkar 2009; Bayoumi 2015; Maira 2016; Love 2017; Maghbouleh 2017) that uncovers where the intersections of race, gender, and religion occur for Muslim Americans in the context of this war, which is also being waged domestically in the United States.

XREF: Connects to broader sociological work on racialization and how class privilege does not erase racial marking, echoing literature on race-class intersections.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 25