Arab Christians can be racialized out of whiteness by phenotype and origin

Evidence

I want to make clear that I am not arguing that Arab Christians may not also experience this exclusion from whiteness. Skin tone and pigmentation as well as other factors, like nation of origin, can also produce the same effect. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 565

Categorization

• DEFINE: This clarifies the mechanism: racialization here is driven by phenotype and nation of origin, not religious identity per se — key to the reader’s core question of how a faith gets racialized.
• XREF: Directly feeds the guiding question on the religion vs. race distinction and connects to the broader racialization literature the reader is building on. — connects to: Christians of Arab descent face workplace discrimination because colleagues assume they are Muslim — Sahar F. Aziz, Sticks and Stones, the Words That Hurt:…, 337; Syrian immigrants won citizenship by proving their whiteness through Christian faith; Christianity and European intermarriage qualified Armenians for whiteness that Muslims could not claim — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 162 (+2 more)