Asian American assimilation did not grant them entry to Whiteness.

Evidence

To be sure, Asian Americans (Christian or otherwise) are still lower in the racial-religious hierarchy than White Christians. For example, Asians’ high levels of education, move to White suburbs, and cultural assimilation did not grant them entrance to Whiteness, as it did the Jews, Catholics, and Mormons of European descent. Rather, Asians were perceived as model minorities, simultaneously blamed for stealing Whites’ educational and employment opportunities and held up to show the failures of the African American and Latino communities. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 347

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the structural position of Black Americans in the US — blamed for taking jobs while also excluded — a double-bind pattern the reader recognizes from Parable of the Sower’s treatment of stratified resentment. — connects to: Irish admission to whiteness had to be earned, not guaranteed by skin color. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 231; Religious identity alone distanced Asian Indians from whiteness in naturalization law. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 118