New racial identities can form in response to racism itself

Evidence

To fully understand Islam-as-race, we must first return to the foundational arguments of critical race theory. One of those precepts is that race is not a fact but is constructed and, therefore, mutable. If we accept that race is unfixed and racial identities are fluid, then we must accept that new races may come into being and new racial identities can form in response to racism. These racial formations never arise fully formed like Athena from Zeus’s forehead; rather, they evolve over time. Even as scholars of race refuse any suggestion that race is a biological fact, many continue to take race as such a fact without much interrogation. Far more important than race itself is racism (an ideology that justifies the subordination of people based on ancestry) and racists (those who carry out racism). — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 51

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core to the reader’s task: Choudhury defines racism as an ideology justifying ancestry-based subordination, establishing the movable, non-biological ground for Islam-as-race.
• XREF: Directly comparable to Aziz’s ‘Racial Muslim’ argument about how law/state produces racialized Muslim identity. — connects to: Targeting and dialectical resistance have made Islam function as a race. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 34; Race emerges from prior racist practice, not from perceived difference — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 32; Racialization assigns visibly non-white people into a collective identity they may not hold (+7 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 51
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Racialization assigns visibly non-white people into a collective identity they may not hold #expands (0.85)
• Black racial identity is externally imposed before it is self-chosen #exemplifies (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 340
• Racial identity arises as a negative product of oppression #corroborates (0.82)