Religious identity, once racialized, bars citizens from full dignitary benefits

Evidence

The experiences of Catholics, Jews, and Mormons leads us back to the race question facing Muslims today: Does having a non-Judeo-Christian religious identity permanently bar immigrant Muslims from obtaining the full dignitary and social benefits of citizenship? So long as Muslim identity is racialized, the answer is likely no. Meanwhile, African American Muslims will continue to be barred from first-class citizenship on account of entrenched anti-Black racism under America’s Black-White racial paradigm. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 477

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader reading on racialized religious minorities (Catholics, Jews, Mormons as precedent groups) and to Derrick Bell’s interest convergence theory referenced in the next paragraph. — connects to: Religious identity alone distanced Asian Indians from whiteness in naturalization law. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 118