Converting to Islam or wearing the hijab causes loss of whiteness privileges

Evidence

These experiences also clearly demonstrate how the hijab mitigates the privileges that whiteness affords. White women lose their privilege of whiteness when they wear the hijab. The white women’s experiences are no different from the Pakistani and Indian women who also wear the hijab. They too are marked as potentially Arab. The hijab becomes a racializing agent, and those who wear it are told to “go back home” by their fellow private citizens, which denies them the ability to claim their national identity. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 261

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional move: hijab as racializing agent that trumps a wearer’s own racial identity.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s guiding question of how a faith gets racialized; also intersects with whiteness-studies literature (Lipsitz, etc.) on privilege as situational. — connects to: Categorical whiteness excludes Arabs and Muslims from the benefits of racial remedy in America; Whiteness by law was defined as Christian, excluding Muslims from citizenship — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 150; White victims receive instant humanity denied to Arab and Muslim victims (+28 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 261

Broader Connections

• Arabs classified as white lose that status upon wearing the hijab #corroborates (0.90) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 201
• Wearing the hijab strips Arab women of their perceived whiteness #corroborates (0.90) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 145
• Wearing the hijab is read as surrendering whiteness and citizenship standing #corroborates (0.85)
• Removing the hijab restored women’s ability to pass for white #corroborates (0.85)
• Muslim Arabs move away from whiteness regardless of actual skin tone #corroborates (0.85)
• The hijab rather than skin tone triggers racializing surveillance of Muslim women #expands (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 292
• Wearing the hijab shifts how Muslim women are racially perceived and treated #corroborates (0.80)
• Cultural practices become racialized when they are essentialized as innate to Muslims #expands (0.75) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 274
• Lighter skin and Westernized names let some Muslims pass as white #qualifies (0.70)
• Muslims move down the racial hierarchy rather than becoming a new race #expands (0.70)
• Muslim names alone can racialize phenotypically white people #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 91
• Muslim identity stripped South Asian men of their model-minority racial privilege #expands (0.50)