Pressure to pass into whiteness acted on all racialized groups

Evidence

Another prerequisite for becoming socially White was disassociation from Blacks. Thus when Booker T. Washington in 1906 condemned lynching by comparing it to pogroms, some Jewish Americans refuted the comparison by praising the freedoms available in America and pointing out the criminality of the Negro. Similarly, some Jewish Americans’ support for disenfranchisement of Blacks in the first half of the twentieth century was a means of proving their racial loyalty to Anglo-American normativity, into which they sought acceptance. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 388 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The 1924 Asiatic Barred Zone placed nearly all Muslims outside admissible whiteness; Distancing from Blacks was a condition of acquiring social Whiteness — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 388; Whiteness ideology makes racial passing unnecessary by legitimizing whitening through mixing — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1209 (+9 more)

Related

• Distancing from Blacks was a condition of acquiring social Whiteness (similarity 0.87)
• European immigrants proved Whiteness by joining anti-Black subordination (similarity 0.85)
• Whiteness can be intermittently granted and revoked for non-Western groups (similarity 0.81)
• Claiming Whiteness required complicity in Black subordination for Jews and Catholics (similarity 0.80)
• Legal whiteness did not protect Jews and Catholics from social racialization (similarity 0.79)
• Racialization analysis targets groups marked by race, not prejudice itself. (similarity 0.79)
• Supporting Black civil rights delayed Jews’ acceptance into Whiteness (similarity 0.78)
• Assimilation lets some ethnic groups become White but never Blacks (similarity 0.78)
• Legal Whiteness once coexisted with social racial inferiority for European groups (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Distancing from Blacks was a condition of acquiring social Whiteness #corroborates (0.90) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 388
• Whiteness was defined through exclusion of non-black immigrant groups too. #corroborates (0.90)
• Racial others are recruited into whiteness while denied its inner rewards #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1136
• Racialization mechanisms are porous across internal and external targets #expands (0.85)
• Whiteness ideology makes racial passing unnecessary by legitimizing whitening through mixing #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1209
• Groups become White by renouncing cultural difference and proving state loyalty #expands (0.80)
• Legal Whiteness once coexisted with social racial inferiority for European groups #corroborates (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 386
• Racist collectivization denies individuality to colonized groups while sparing whites collective blame #expands (0.75)
• Whites now universally repudiate explicit group dominance and endorse formal equality #qualifies (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2185
• Exposure to minorities increases whites’ race-based self-definition #corroborates (0.70)