The 1924 law’s effects made today’s Muslims targets of White nativism

Evidence

Not until passage of the 1965 Nationality and Immigration Act were Asians, including people from the Middle East and North Africa, permitted to immigrate in substantial numbers to the United States. As a consequence, nearly 70 percent of Muslims in America today are foreign born or children of immigrants, making them a prime target for the new wave of White nativism in the post-9/11 era. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 246

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how an 1880 census baseline chosen in 1924 still shapes the demographics — and political vulnerability — of American Muslim communities a century later.
• XREF: Directly relevant to The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Home Boy themes of post-9/11 Muslim immigrant experience in America. — connects to: Nativist ideology outlived its emotional drive after 1924. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1960; The 1924 Asiatic Barred Zone placed nearly all Muslims outside admissible whiteness