Chinese Americans practiced racial distancing from Blacks to claim whiteness

Evidence

Another prerequisite for becoming socially White was disassociation from Blacks. Thus when Booker T. Washington in 1906 condemned lynching by comparing it to pogroms, some Jewish Americans refuted the comparison by praising the freedoms available in America and pointing out the criminality of the Negro. Similarly, some Jewish Americans’ support for disenfranchisement of Blacks in the first half of the twentieth century was a means of proving their racial loyalty to Anglo-American normativity, into which they sought acceptance. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 388 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Chinese Americans affirmed segregation to distance themselves from Blacks; Distancing from Blacks was a condition of acquiring social Whiteness — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 388; European immigrants held an intermediate racial status and were induced to become white — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 40

Broader Connections

• Chinese Americans affirmed segregation to distance themselves from Blacks #expands (0.95)
• Distancing from Blacks was a condition of acquiring social Whiteness #corroborates (0.92) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 388