Race remains the master category for immigrant integration in the United States

Evidence

In this climate, race is no longer but one of many variables to help understand the integration of immigrants and their children in the United States; rather, race has been and still remains the master category. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 553

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘master category’ formulation from Omi & Winant and connects to critical race theory’s insistence that race structures even seemingly non-racial domains.

Related

• Race functions as a master status tied to oppression rather than demographic mixing (similarity 0.82)
• Race remains the master category distributing rights and resources in America (similarity 0.82)
• Race is an unstable, fully-fledged social fact like class or gender (similarity 0.82)
• Race in America must be understood as involving religion and immigrant groups (similarity 0.80)
• Ethnicity theories of race assume whiteness is the normalized standard (similarity 0.80)
• Race structures all major US institutions from the colonial era onward (similarity 0.80)
• Racial formation is an unstable process transformed by political struggle (similarity 0.79)
• Mainstream social science historically treated race as a static independent variable. (similarity 0.79)
• Race fixes status by ancestry while ethnicity permits negotiated identity (similarity 0.79)
• Studying race now requires crossing disciplinary boundaries. (similarity 0.78)
• Race must be analyzed as both structure and representation simultaneously. (similarity 0.78)
• Racial categories are unstable and shift through contested definition (similarity 0.78)
• Race never functioned as a unifying force in American national identity as religion did (similarity 0.78)
• Race and racism must be distinguished analytically and politically (similarity 0.78)
• Assimilation theory frames whiteness as the default outcome of immigrant incorporation (similarity 0.78)