Cultural and political shifts can racialize religious identity

Evidence

Through conversations with Muslim men and women, I was able to uncover how their lives slowly transformed from being viewed as marginally American as a result of their ethnic identities to being seen as anti-American and unwanted because of their religious identity. The stories and testimonies of ordinary American citizens in this book reflect how cultural and political shifts can create newly racialized meanings in a society that is organized along racial lines. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 150

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the book’s central mechanism: religious identity getting transformed into racialized meaning — the religion-to-race shift the reader is tracking.
• XREF: connects to: Islam’s racial function shifts with changing Muslim demographics.; Educated black leaders policed a cultural divide against folk religious practice — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 226; Culture served as a racializing mode that displaced politics onto religion — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 256 (+4 more)