ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the racialization of Muslim and Middle Eastern Americans and the implications for population health. This chapter explores the journey from experiencing racism to developing the scholarship on anti-Muslim racism and health through a discussion of Public Health and Critical Race Praxis. The chapter also situates anti-Muslim racism as an important dimension of the relationship between structural racism and health. The theory of racialization includes close attention to how racism is historically and socially evolving and how the institutional response to that social evolution needs to situate and elevate the needs of racialized Muslim youth and communities to promote population health and wellbeing. The research aims to bring Muslim and Middle Eastern communities out of the shadows and reduce the double burden of racialization, both racism and invisibility, carried across the life course to promote health equity.
