American identity is defined by race and citizenship proxies for national loyalty

Evidence

Since the nation’s inception, the American psyche has struggled with its conflicted relationship with immigrants. On the one hand, the nation has welcomed-and in the case of African Americans coercively appropriated-the labor of people from every continent. On the other hand, the Eurocentric vision of Americanism has tenaciously dominated the definition of the “American.”’ As race and citizenship become proxies for (dis)loyalty to the nation, 8 Bill Ong Hing, Vigilante Racism: The De-Americanization of Immigrant America, 7 MicH. — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt, 33

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theoretical racecraft framing of citizenship exclusivity the reader is treating as context, and to nativism literature on who counts as ‘American’. — connects to: Government profiling rules exempt national security and stay nonbinding — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt:…, 93; National identity is negotiated between legal citizenship and cultural custom — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 52; Religious identity functions as a racial marker conferring privilege in America. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 190 (+1 more)

Related

• Religious identity historically served as a proxy for race in American immigration debates (similarity 0.82)
• Religious identity functions as a racial marker conferring privilege in America. (similarity 0.81)
• National identity is negotiated between legal citizenship and cultural custom (similarity 0.80)
• Citizenship in America has historically been tied to whiteness and Christianity (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• National identity is negotiated between legal citizenship and cultural custom #expands (0.80) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 52
• Religious identity historically served as a proxy for race in American immigration debates #corroborates (0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 249
• Religious identity functions as a racial marker conferring privilege in America. #expands (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 190