European immigrants earned whiteness by adopting anti-nonwhite antagonism

Evidence

Another prerequisite for becoming socially White was disassociation from Blacks. Thus when Booker T. Washington in 1906 condemned lynching by comparing it to pogroms, some Jewish Americans refuted the comparison by praising the freedoms available in America and pointing out the criminality of the Negro. Similarly, some Jewish Americans’ support for disenfranchisement of Blacks in the first half of the twentieth century was a means of proving their racial loyalty to Anglo-American normativity, into which they sought acceptance. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 388 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pre-existing white-supremacy folkways, projected onto new immigrants, powered southern and western nativism — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 989; Anti-European nativism recycled emotions first aimed at nonwhite groups — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 763; Southern congressmen framed southern European immigrants as racially impure — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 984 (+22 more)

Broader Connections

• European immigrants proved Whiteness by joining anti-Black subordination #corroborates (0.97) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 388