African American Muslims are the largest Muslim American plurality yet stay marginalized.

Evidence

Muhammad Ali, whom American presidents and statesmen, non-black Muslim American clergy and leaders rushed to eulogize and honor on June 3, 2016, was one of the most visible faces of the Nation of Islam in the 1960s. Ali and Malcolm X remain the two most beloved and widely known Muslim Americans, so why is the specific demographic they represent, African American Muslims, still pushed to the fringe? And why, given that African American Muslims are the biggest plurality of the Muslim American population today, are discussions of Islamophobia divorced from assessments of anti-black racism? — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 451

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why is the largest Muslim demographic the most erased? Beydoun raises the question rhetorically here but the erasure mechanisms are worth tracing across chapters.
• XREF: Directly parallel to Auston’s ‘doubly efface’ claim and to the general phenomenon of largest-constituency invisibility. — connects to: The ‘Muslims are the new blacks’ claim erases black Muslims’ longstanding existence. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 419; Anti-black racism within Muslim American communities remains unaddressed — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 436; Black Muslims constitute one-fourth of the Muslim population yet are excluded from leadership. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 449 (+13 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 451

Broader Connections

• Black American Muslims suffer compounded vulnerability from converging anti-Black racism and Islamophobia #expands (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 460
• Comparing Muslims to blacks erases that African Americans are the largest American-born Muslim group #expands (0.70)
• African American Muslims experience racialized religion differently due to distinct history #expands (0.70) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 478
• Media and scholarship doubly erase black American Muslims’ existence and voices. #expands (0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 452
• Muslim America’s narrative is rooted in blackness, not Arab identity #expands (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 85
• Muslim Americans occupy a liminal racial position above African Americans #complicates (0.50)
• Ethnic segregation persists among Muslim Americans despite unified racialization #complicates (0.40) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 519
• Muslims in the United States endure discrimination in their everyday lives #corroborates (0.40) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 32
• Islamophobic crisis produces simultaneous mainstreaming and marginalization of Arab American communities #complicates (0.40)
• Anti-Muslim crisis periods simultaneously empower and marginalize Arab American communities #complicates (0.40)
• Metro Detroit holds the most concentrated Muslim American community in the country. #complicates (0.30) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 534
• Nearly half of American Muslims experienced anti-Muslim discrimination within a single year. #corroborates (0.30) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 264