Syrian Christians accessed nominal whiteness but remained incompletely white

Evidence

Although Syrian Christians were able to have some success accessing whiteness, particularly through naturalization, they were also not treated as fully white in the United States. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 717

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Syrian naturalization hinged on courts linking the region to Judaism and Christianity — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 122; Arabs gained whiteness-status in 1943 while Muslims generally remained excluded because Islam signified non-whiteness. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 123; Syrian immigrants won citizenship by proving their whiteness through Christian faith (+1 more)

Related

• Syrian Christians won nominal whiteness yet were never treated as fully white (similarity 0.89)
• Syrian immigrants won citizenship by proving their whiteness through Christian faith (similarity 0.87)
• Syrian naturalization hinged on courts linking the region to Judaism and Christianity (similarity 0.86)
• Syrian Christian immigrants strategically deployed Christianity to win US naturalization (similarity 0.83)
• Early US naturalization law treated Christian Syrians as White. (similarity 0.82)
• Arab Christians can be racialized out of whiteness by phenotype and origin (similarity 0.82)
• Syrian immigrants argued Christianity and Holy Land ancestry to win US citizenship (similarity 0.81)
• Early Syrian Muslims passed as Christians to enter the United States (similarity 0.81)
• Early American courts inconsistently classified Syrians as white for citizenship. (similarity 0.81)
• Islam was not associated with whiteness, blocking Muslim naturalization (similarity 0.81)
• Successful naturalization turned on concealing Islam and emphasizing Christianity (similarity 0.81)
• A bureaucratic 1899 racial label unlocked citizenship for Syrians under the White-only naturalization law (similarity 0.81)
• Whiteness was defined through exclusion of non-black immigrant groups too. (similarity 0.80)
• An Arab Christian claimed whiteness by tying Jesus to the same land (similarity 0.79)
• Christianity and European intermarriage qualified Armenians for whiteness that Muslims could not claim (similarity 0.79)