Phenotypic non-Whites are barred from Whiteness even when Christian

Evidence

After World War II, with the expansion of American national identity to a Judeo-Christian one, Jews were granted full cultural citizenship, as opposed to only legal citizenship. With the inclusion of Jews and Catholics in the national identity came their transformation from inferior non-Anglo-Saxon “races” to culturally assimilable ethnic Whites. This path to first-class citizenship, however, was not available to African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. Their phenotype and skin color permanently exclude them from legal and social Whiteness—even if they convert to Christianity. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 165

Categorization

• XREF: Natural parallel to Title VII race-vs-religion doctrine: for Jews/Catholics religion converted into race-then-ethnicity, while for Muslims the inverse operates, and phenotype blocks the analog path — directly relevant to the Bostock-era boundary question. — connects to: Christianity and European intermarriage qualified Armenians for whiteness that Muslims could not claim — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 162; Christianity itself functioned as a core element of legal whiteness — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 156