The hijab overrides prior phenotypical racial classifications, unifying South Asian and Arab women
Evidence
Arab women who could once pass for white, are no longer able to do so when they put on the hijab. For South Asian and Arab American women who wear the hijab, their experiences begin to mirror one another because of it. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 415
Categorization
- XREF: Directly serves the diversity-vs-uniformity question in the reader’s notes: phenotypic ‘whiteness’ is a fungible status the hijab revokes. — connects to: The hijab signals foreignness so strongly it overrides ethnicity and skin tone — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 349; Arabs classified as white lose that status upon wearing the hijab — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 201
Related
- Arabs classified as white lose that status upon wearing the hijab (similarity 0.89)
- Wearing the hijab strips Arab women of their perceived whiteness (similarity 0.87)
- Arabs were classified white for citizenship so they could be distinguished from ineligible Asians (similarity 0.87)
- The hijab overrides whiteness as a racializing agent for white converts (similarity 0.87)
- Removing the hijab restored women’s ability to pass for white (similarity 0.86)
- Wearing the hijab is read as surrendering whiteness and citizenship standing (similarity 0.86)
- The hijab overrides whiteness as a racializing agent on any wearer. (similarity 0.84)
- Muslim Arabs move away from whiteness regardless of actual skin tone (similarity 0.84)
- Hijab converts white-passing women into racialized outsiders (similarity 0.84)
- Converting to Islam or wearing the hijab causes loss of whiteness privileges (similarity 0.84)
- The hijab functions like skin tone in racializing Muslim women’s bodies. (similarity 0.84)
- Wearing the hijab shifts how Muslim women are racially perceived and treated (similarity 0.83)
- Muslim women manage their hijab’s color to prevent racialization of their bodies. (similarity 0.83)
- The hijab functions like skin tone by marking bodies as racial others (similarity 0.82)
- Removing the hijab lets Muslim women regain individual identity and escape racialized scrutiny (similarity 0.82)