Catholics and Jews gained Whiteness only by adopting Anglo-Protestant norms

Evidence

In the case of Catholics and Jews, avoiding a separate racial category allowed them to assert their American identity themselves rather than have Anglo-Saxon Protestants with exclusionary political agendas impose it on them. The newly coined “ethnic Whites” of the post–World War II era faced questions as to whether their religions were compatible with American democracy, mirroring contemporary debates on whether Islam is antidemocratic. Their European ancestry granted them entrance into Whiteness on condition they adopt Anglo-Protestant norms in their lifestyles, associations, and religious practices. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 361

Categorization

• XREF: This directly parallels the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article thread on class/identity signaling, and connects to whiteness studies of the post-WWII era. — connects to: Christianity and European intermarriage qualified Armenians for whiteness that Muslims could not claim — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 162; Anti-black animus taught European Catholic immigrants that they could be white — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 208
• SEED: Angle: the conditional terms of ‘becoming White’ — what cultural performances non-White groups must perform to gain entry, and whether Islam is being posed the same ‘compatibility with democracy’ test.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 361