Converting to Islam did not shield African Americans from racial classification

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Islam’s racialization dates to American slavery, not modern immigration debates — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 148; Moorish identity was claimed to escape black racial classification; Claiming Islam did not let African Americans escape early-twentieth-century racial logic (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Islamic identity could not shield Black Americans from racial prejudice. #corroborates (0.97)
• Conversion does not erase racialized Muslim identity #expands (0.92)
• Converting to Islam causes white people to be reracialized as non-white #complicates (0.74) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 89