The hijab overrides whiteness as a racializing agent for white converts

Evidence

White women lose their privilege of whiteness when they wear the hijab. The white women’s experiences are no different from the Pakistani and Indian women who also wear the hijab. They too are marked as potentially Arab. The hijab becomes a racializing agent, and those who wear it are told to “go back home” by their fellow private citizens, which denies them the ability to claim their national identity. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 359

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the MOC thread: the religious/cultural signifier replaces phenotype as the operational racial category — evidence for racialization de-phenotyped onto an algorithmic/detachable marker. — connects to: Muslim names alone can racialize phenotypically white people — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 91
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Related

• Converting to Islam or wearing the hijab causes loss of whiteness privileges (similarity 0.91)
• Arabs classified as white lose that status upon wearing the hijab (similarity 0.87)
• The hijab overrides prior phenotypical racial classifications, unifying South Asian and Arab women (similarity 0.87)
• Converting to Islam causes white people to be reracialized as non-white (similarity 0.87)
• Hijab converts white-passing women into racialized outsiders (similarity 0.87)
• The hijab overrides whiteness as a racializing agent on any wearer. (similarity 0.86)
• Muslim women manage their hijab’s color to prevent racialization of their bodies. (similarity 0.85)
• Wearing the hijab is read as surrendering whiteness and citizenship standing (similarity 0.84)
• Wearing the hijab strips Arab women of their perceived whiteness (similarity 0.84)
• The hijab makes Muslim women visible targets of displaced anti-terror anger (similarity 0.84)
• Arabs were classified white for citizenship so they could be distinguished from ineligible Asians (similarity 0.84)
• The hijab functions like skin tone by marking bodies as racial others (similarity 0.83)
• Removing the hijab restored women’s ability to pass for white (similarity 0.83)
• The hijab functions like skin tone in racializing Muslim women’s bodies. (similarity 0.83)
• Wearing the hijab shifts how Muslim women are racially perceived and treated (similarity 0.83)