Becoming Christian did not gain Black people access to Whiteness.

Evidence

After World War II, with the expansion of American national identity to a Judeo-Christian one, Jews were granted full cultural citizenship, as opposed to only legal citizenship. With the inclusion of Jews and Catholics in the national identity came their transformation from inferior non-Anglo-Saxon “races” to culturally assimilable ethnic Whites. This path to first-class citizenship, however, was not available to African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. Their phenotype and skin color permanently exclude them from legal and social Whiteness—even if they convert to Christianity. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 165 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Irish admission to whiteness had to be earned, not guaranteed by skin color. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 231; Christianity was the factor that let Armenian immigrants pass as white. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 162; Phenotypic non-Whites are barred from Whiteness even when Christian — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 165 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Phenotypic non-Whites are barred from Whiteness even when Christian #corroborates (0.95) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 165