Racialization erases internal ethnic differences to homogenize a group into a new category.

Evidence

For Africans brought to the United States, their differences as Wolof, Fulani, Mandinka, Yoruba, Fon, as so on were erased in a process that dehumanized and homogenized them first into slaves and then “Black” so that their mistreatment based on shared African ancestry could be justified. For the Islamicized/Muslims, ethnic differences are similarly being erased in a process that renders the connection to Islam the most meaningful marker of difference, a difference from non-Muslims and a difference from whiteness. In other words, the connection to Islam is the means by which people come to be Islamicized into a race. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 516

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Aziz’s account of how diverse Muslim immigrants were flattened into a single racialized ‘Muslim’ category. — connects to: Lumping all non-Black multiracial people into one category erases their distinct experiences. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 51; Aggregating distinct Multiracial groups as one category erases their differing experiences. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 51; Integration into Western secular society erases national differences within minority groups. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 894 (+2 more)
• SEED: Essay angle: the homogenization mechanism is identical across Blacks and Muslims — only the marker (ancestry vs. religion) differs.

Broader Connections

• Aggregating distinct Multiracial groups as one category erases their differing experiences. #corroborates (1.00) — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 51
• Integration into Western secular society erases national differences within minority groups. #corroborates (1.00) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 894
• Assimilationist anti-racism both erased black-white difference and homogenized black peoples #corroborates (1.00) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1189
• Racialization assigns visibly non-white people into a collective identity they may not hold #corroborates (1.00)