American capitalism offered European immigrants whiteness as a path to belonging.

Evidence

Overseeing the earth was not enough, so whiteness gave “itself a holy face” by “wrapping itself” in the form of a white-faced Jesus and entwining itself with a faith, Christianity, that would become its hallmark. Portraits of white Jesus and his fair-skinned companions sat high in government buildings, living rooms, and schoolhouses in America, and everywhere the budding empire would brush its color of influence. Coupled with this holy whiteness was the sanctity of the dollar, and American capitalism provided a portal only available to European immigrants to shed their foreigness and be, like Christ, “simply white.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 220

Categorization

• XREF: The white-Jesus-Christianity hallmark directly parallels the author’s overarching thesis and echoes the reader’s prior book on the social control of trust regarding how belonging is signaled. — connects to: American capitalism’s appeal made ethnocentric fascist ideology less necessary there — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1802; Whiteness is the load-bearing fiction behind America’s racial architecture. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 65; America’s real prize for immigrants was winning whiteness, not wealth. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 66 (+3 more)