Over 30 percent of US job ads in 1942 preferred Christian applicants.

Evidence

By 1942, more than 30 percent of job advertisements preferred Christian applicants. Unsurprisingly, second-generation American Jews, many of whom were secularizing as part of their assimilationist process, anglicized their names and hid their Jewish identity in order to obtain employment. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Fits the book’s core thesis (The Racial Muslim) that religious minorities are racialized, extending the argument backward to an earlier era before Muslims became the target.