Converting to Islam causes white people to be reracialized as non-white

Evidence

As all these narratives demonstrate, a Muslim identity is a racializing agent in the current political climate of the United States. When white people convert to Islam, they experience reracialization and lose their privileges associated with whiteness (Galonnier 2015; Moosavi 2015). For Arabs who are racially classified as white, they lose this status when they wear the hijab. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 89

Categorization

• DEFINE: The sharpest evidence that Islam itself is a racializing agent independent of phenotype — white converts lose whiteness. Core to the reader’s religion-vs-race distinction.
• QUESTION: Have any scholarly accounts examined whether white Muslim converts describe the experience differently from Arabs who already had Arab ethnicity?
• XREF: Central replacement evidence for the reader’s Global Racial Enemy slot — proves race here is not phenotype but a socially assigned religious category. — connects to: Muslims get racialized via projected religious ancestry regardless of self-understanding — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 64; Muslim immigrants preferred strained whiteness arguments over an easier Blackness claim; People who seem white can be raced non-white on the basis of Islam alone. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252 (+5 more)