Flying While Muslim and Driving While Black

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Poweris an academic journal, published by Routledge. The Editorial Office is based in the Sociology Department, University of Edinburgh, UK.The journal explores the formation and transformation of racial, ethnic, national, transnational and postcolonial identities in the contemporary world. It locates culture, representations and identities as key sites for processes of domination, struggle and resistance, recognising their intersection with other forms of social division and identification.

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Examining the Differences in Racialized Surveillance and Policing for African American Muslims with Dr Saher Selod, Simmons University

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Flying While Muslim and Driving While Black: Examining the Differences in Racialized Surveillance and Policing for African American MuslimsWith Dr Saher Selod, Simmons UniversityChaired by Dr Aaron Winter, Lancaster University AbstractIn this talk, Dr Saher Selod will examine how being Black and Muslim guides the types of racialized policing and surveillance that men and women encounter, and how race, ethnicity and gender inform the types of policing and surveillance they experience. Dr Selod will explore how federal security and local policing operate under different racialized constructions of threat: the construct of the ‘terrorist’ is a racial one that drives counterterrorism policies that mark Muslims as dangerous to national security, while the War on Drugs has marked African Americans as drug offenders and violent domestic criminals, making them susceptible to hyper policing. This lecture will take place online. Please register to attend, and a joining link will be sent to you on the day of the event.

Saher Selod is an Associate Professor and previous Chair of the Department of Sociology at Simmons University in Boston, MA. Her research expertise centres on the experiences of Muslims with surveillance. In her first book Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror (Rutgers University Press, 2018) examines how Muslim men and Muslim women experience gendered forms of racialization through their hyper surveillance because of the War on Terror. Her co-authored second book, A Global Racial Enemy: Muslims and Twenty-First Century Racism (Polity Press, 2024) examines how the Global War on Terror has justified the detention, imprisonment and hyper surveillance of Muslims in the United States, the United Kingdom, India and China. She is currently the Director of Research for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a research organization that conducts studies on American Muslims.

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