Muslim identity today sits at the boundary between rehabilitating ethnicity and fixed race

Evidence

Because there is a large Palestinian presence in Chicago, the Palestinian Muslims I interviewed socialized amongst themselves. 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. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 520 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslim-first identity responds to racialization but ethnic and class divisions persist — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 720; Racializing Muslims holds race as both fixed and fluid — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 105; Islam comes to function as a race through racecraft that erases internal ethnic differences — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 516 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Muslim communities remain ethnically endogamous despite shared religious identity #complicates (0.78) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 520