Muslim American men are losing model-minority racial privileges

Evidence

The interviews reflect the rising trend in employment discrimination for Muslims in the United States (Acquisti and Fong 2015). While highly educated professionals who are Pakistani and Indian were once characterized as a model minority, in today’s era, Muslim American men are losing racial privileges they once were afforded because of how their religious identity racializes them. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 334

Categorization

• XREF: Directly illustrates how a faith gets racialized — the model-minority trope collapsing under Islamophobia. Connects to the reader’s guiding question of religion-vs-race distinction and the Beydoun frame.
• DEFINE: Shows racialization operating in practice: religious identity reclassifying a group out of a previously held racial privilege.