In her interview with dalton conley, jen'nan read discusses the meaning of arab and muslim. prior to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, arab americans were mostly unnoticed in the united states. since then, arab americans have been the targets of racism and discrimination, and have now been effectively racialized because

Muslim residing in the United States have been common subjects of racial discrimination because of the actions are done by the radical Muslim in the Middle East. The acts of terror done by these terrorists made the people have these thinking that "Muslims are terrorists" without considering that they are non-radical Muslims too.