Bengali immigrants navigated citizenship by adopting Black identity after Thind

Evidence

Robert Miles supports this by citing Paul Gilroy’s There ain’t no black in the Union Jack as a perfect example, where Asians were granted merely a ‘walk-on’ part. Modood also suggested that the term ‘black’ overlooked and obscured Asian needs despite them becoming an ever-growing population, adding that ‘black’ was also far too politicised that for Asians was little more than a ‘political colour’ that appealed only to a very limited aspect of their individual or community being. The final two arguments were that ‘black’ was non-conducive to ethnic pride and that there was a coerciveness by anti-racist advocates where the consent of Asians and others who were not culturally black became taken for granted and so negated their status and distinctive identity. resultantly, Modood put forward the argument that new identities were needed that broke the hegemonic grip of ‘political blackness’. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 57 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Non-white South Asian immigrants could obtain citizenship by passing as Black; Immigrant Muslim petitioners chose whiteness claims over easier Black identification.; The anti-racist term ‘black’ excluded Asians and prompted new identities — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 57 (+1 more)

Related

• Immigrant Muslim petitioners chose whiteness claims over easier Black identification. (similarity 0.85)
• Non-white South Asian immigrants could obtain citizenship by passing as Black (similarity 0.82)
• The anti-racist term ‘black’ excluded Asians and prompted new identities (similarity 0.81)
• Muslim immigrants preferred strained whiteness arguments over an easier Blackness claim (similarity 0.80)
• Black identity as political category only emerged after the late 1960s (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Non-white South Asian immigrants could obtain citizenship by passing as Black #corroborates (0.88)
• Immigrant Muslim petitioners chose whiteness claims over easier Black identification. #qualifies (0.80)
• The anti-racist term ‘black’ excluded Asians and prompted new identities #qualifies (0.78) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 57
• Race fixes status by ancestry while ethnicity permits negotiated identity #expands (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 391