US government has used religion to justify racial subordination throughout history

Evidence

Depending on the interests of the White Christian majority, the US government has used religion to justify enslavement of Africans, settlement of Native Americans’ lands, exclusionary immigration laws, criminalization of Blacks, and securitization of immigrant Muslims. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1068

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader reading on how state power instrumentalizes categories of difference across eras. — connects to: American religion is intrinsically bound to gender and family but not to race — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 438; Defending a Christian nation has meant defending the racial order — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 476; Church membership provided the moral foundation for Jim Crow political power. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 29 (+6 more)
• SEED: Essay angle: a through-line history of religion as the state’s flexible justification tool - from enslavement to Muslim surveillance.