Flying While Muslim and Driving While Black: Examining the Differences in Racialized Surveillance and Policing for African American Muslims
In 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.
School of Social and Political Sciences; College of Social Sciences Hub
Date: Monday 24 February 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Venue: Online
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Speaker: Dr Saher Selod, Simmons University
In 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.