Christians wanted Morisco assimilation and simultaneously believed it impossible

Evidence

What did the Christian majority want of the Moriscos? To answer that question was easy, so Christians would have said. These Moriscos must become sincere Christians and good Spaniards just like everybody else. But at the same time there was the widespread conviction that the converts were insincere and that all of them at heart were Muslims. (This was, of course, probably true.) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1100

Categorization

• XREF: The simultaneous longing for and rejection of the convert echoes the double-bind structures in Naqvi’s Home Boy about immigrant belonging.
• DEEPTHINKING: A crisp statement of the assimilation paradox: theoretical desire for inclusion coupled with practical commitment to exclusion — a structure that recurs across colonial and minority dynamics. This is well-argued but may be a shade too familiar to qualify as top-tier.