Cold War competition had made America court Muslims as people of color
Evidence
After the fall of communism, America no longer needed to demonstrate that it was welcoming of people of color as it did during World War II. During that period, many Muslim populations in Asia and Africa were struggling for 167. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 236
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Cold War geopolitics shaped which Muslim immigrants courts deemed racially white. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 173; Cold War competition pressured the US toward race-neutral governance. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 376; During the early Cold War, Islam was coded positively in US discourse — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 392 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Cold War geopolitics made citizenship courts expand racial inclusion of Muslims
#expands(0.82) - Cold War competition with the Soviets made domestic racism a national security liability
#corroborates(0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 465 - Soviet propaganda about US racism forced Cold War-era civil rights reforms
#corroborates(0.77) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1275 - Early Cold War discourse coded Islam positively when anti-communist
#corroborates(0.76) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 392 - During the early Cold War, Islam was coded positively in US discourse
#corroborates(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 392 - Cold War socialist rivalry once pressured American racial equality, but that pressure is gone
#corroborates(0.74) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2196 - Arab Muslims won US citizenship via the Semitic-race argument in the mid-1940s
#exemplifies(0.73) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 230 - Cold War competition pressured the US toward race-neutral governance.
#corroborates(0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 376