Newly assimilated ethnic Whites enforced segregation to protect their fresh racial privilege

Evidence

Obtaining the benefits of Whiteness requires loyalty to a racial-religious hierarchy that places Blacks and Native Americans at the bottom. Having been exposed to the underbelly of White supremacy as in-between races, the new “ethnic Whites” competing for jobs with Blacks and other racial minorities united in their support of racial segregation in housing, employment, and schooling as a means of preserving their newfound racial privilege. They adopted and perpetuated stereotypes of Blacks as lazy, violent, and dependent on state welfare, notwithstanding significant housing and loan subsidies granted to European immigrant families after World War II. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 418

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s argument that Muslims today face the same in-between status and may police other out-groups to claim Whiteness. — connects to: White workers cemented segregation to protect their labor advantages — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1459; Working-class whites greeted open fascist segregationism with mass enthusiasm. — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 117
• QUESTION: Did anything in this chapter identify a specific modern analog where assimilated ethnic groups police boundaries against Muslim Americans?