Ethnic endogamy persists among South Asian Muslims despite a shared Muslim identity

Evidence

The same was true for the Pakistani and Indian Muslim communities in both Chicago and the Dallas/Fort Worth area. While Pakistanis and Indians would mix, most of the people I talked to were married to someone who was also from their ethnic background. The “Muslim first” classification in some ways could be seen as a response to the racialization of a Muslim identity, but socioeconomic status and migratory patterns still matter in terms of whether or not South Asian and Arab Muslims are integrated. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 720

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader thesis about how the post-9/11 racialization of Muslims as a single identity group interacts with pre-existing ethnic divisions within Muslim communities. — connects to: Ethnic segregation persists among Muslim Americans despite unified racialization — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 519; Young Arab Americans claim Muslim-first identity partly as a marriage tactic — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 135; Muslim-first identity responds to racialization but ethnic and class divisions persist — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 720