Racialization dooms all Muslims to a lower caste regardless of individual merit

Evidence

To be sure, my exploration of the relationship between Muslim identity and Whiteness is not intended to argue that Muslims should seek to be White. Quite the contrary: I argue that the racialization of Islam as violent, illiberal, uncivilized, and anti-American dooms all Muslims to a lower societal caste regardless of their individual beliefs, lifestyles, and accomplishments. This is because Whiteness is linked to an individual’s optimum access to opportunity, resources, wealth, and dignity in the United States. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 160

Categorization

• XREF: The caste framework connects to the reading on social capital and how ascription overrides individual accumulation of human capital. — connects to: Islam as race makes Muslim assimilation permanently impossible. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252