Early US law linked racial exclusion to a white Christian citizenship ideal

Evidence

In this way, Syrians and Hindus, in their broad sense of identification, were connected through a logic of racial exclusion based on a definition of the U.S. citizen as white and Christian. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 208

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White Christianity’s function was protecting white racial innocence — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 69; Christianity itself functioned as a core element of legal whiteness — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 156