Whiteness operates as a racial passport that overrides legal citizenship status

Evidence

Tarrant was the visitor traveling to a foreign country. Yet his whiteness enabled a fluid and invisible transition, without the markings of “foreignness” and “immigrant” ascribed to Brown Muslims, even those who are full-fledged citizens. His Muslim victims were, legally and physically, at home. However, in his mind, the only formal status that mattered was his white skin. That was his racial passport, and in his mind it made him proprietor of a foreign land. The fifty-one Muslims he gunned down, who were supremely diverse in terms of race and ethnicity, were racially flattened as nonwhite as a consequence of their Muslim identity. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 910

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the ‘racial passport’ as an inverted immigration system — whiteness conferring rights foreign nationals of the wrong race are denied even when citizens.