Christianity and European intermarriage qualified Armenians for whiteness that Muslims could not claim

Evidence

The court there found, however, that the Armenians are a Christian people living in an area close to the European border, who have intermingled and intermarried with Europeans over a period of centuries. Evidence was also presented in that case of a considerable amount of intermarriage of Armenian immigrants to the United States with other racial strains in our population. These facts serve to distinguish the case of the Armenians from that of the Arabians. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 162

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early Levantine immigrants were deemed inassimilable non-Whites due to Muslim affiliation — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 484; Converting to Islam causes white people to be reracialized as non-white — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 89; Phenotypic non-Whites are barred from Whiteness even when Christian — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 165 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• People who seem white can be raced non-white on the basis of Islam alone. #corroborates (0.88) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252
• Phenotypic non-Whites are barred from Whiteness even when Christian #qualifies (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 165
• Islam was not associated with whiteness, blocking Muslim naturalization #corroborates (0.85) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 89
• Islam functionally disqualified citizenship applicants from whiteness regardless of method #corroborates (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 153
• Converting to Islam causes white people to be reracialized as non-white #complicates (0.82) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 89
• Religious assimilation granted Whiteness, but phenotype permanently blocked non-White converts #qualifies (0.82)
• Early Levantine immigrants were deemed inassimilable non-Whites due to Muslim affiliation #corroborates (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 484
• Syrian Christians won nominal whiteness yet were never treated as fully white #qualifies (0.80)
• Syrian Christians accessed nominal whiteness but remained incompletely white #qualifies (0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 717
• Arab Christians can be racialized out of whiteness by phenotype and origin #qualifies (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 565
• Religion alone can racialize even phenotypically White groups as inferior #corroborates (0.80)
• Whiteness by law was defined as Christian, excluding Muslims from citizenship #corroborates (0.78) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 150
• The Abrahamic expansion of Whiteness still excludes phenotypically and religiously marked members #expands (0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 976
• Catholics and Jews gained Whiteness only by adopting Anglo-Protestant norms #expands (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 361