Light-skinned Arabs are socially white until a visible marker reveals their faith

Evidence

Aziza: I guess, I mean I don’t know because even though I’m Arab, I’m a little bit lighter skin. I mean, when I’m not wearing the scarf, I know people say that you can’t really tell that necessarily I’m Arab or something. Even my friends seem to be like, “Oh, if you weren’t wearing your scarf we would’ve just thought you were a white girl.” — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 139

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows the mechanism of racialization: visible religious markers, not ancestry alone, determine racialized treatment — Arabs are legally white but socially raced by the hijab.
• XREF: Bears directly on the reader’s core question of how a faith gets racialized — the hijab outerwear, not Arab ethnicity, triggers the racializing.