Foreign policy consequences now shape US domestic civil rights tests

Evidence

In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois observed that the treatment of African Americans stands as “a concrete test of the underlying principles of the great republic.” In fact, the same can be said about Arabs and Muslims today. However, the principles currently at stake revolve not only around issues of full equality and inclusion, but fundamentally around the consequences that American foreign policy has on domestic civil rights. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 973

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk and extends her framing to a new group; also resonates with the reader’s material on how status systems integrate outsiders.
• SEED: Could angle an essay on how a group’s civil rights become hostage to a country’s foreign wars rather than its domestic ideals — the test-of-the-republic idea extended.