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The prevalence, and stakes, of these religious identity performances are increasing in response to rising white populism. Akin to prayers mandated by scripture or ordained by divine code, these religious performances are acted out by Muslim Americans facing War on Terror perils and the rising tide of Islamophobia Jewish Americans, marred by the memory of denied whiteness by the very same strand of anti-Semitism proliferating today and Christians of Middle Eastern or North African origins seeking to affirm their formal whiteness for all to see. 6 These acts aim to strategically enhance public perception that they are in fact white or close enough to its sacred bounds to stave off the adverse racial meaning ascribed to their faith. Particularly among members of “stigmatized faiths,” formally classified as white by the state, 5 who negotiate their religious identities into routine, real-time performances in response to legal, political or popular stigma that ascribe racial meaning to their faith. They not only unfold within courtrooms and before judges but are acted out on every stage and sphere of American life.

These performances of whiteness continue today.

4 Citizenship was the greatest prize of them all, and whiteness unlocked the gates to the benefits and bounty of the land. These immigrants knew exactly what the law ordained from 1790 until 1952: that whiteness stood as the exclusive passageway to naturalized citizenship. 3 They staged every dimension of their identity, most notably their religious expression, into forms that would win over presiding, predominantly Protestant, judges. Since the opening acts of American history, immigrants and settlers petitioning for citizenship were tasked with performing whiteness-as if their lives were on the line-in civil courtrooms. Whiteness, in the American experience, is worshipped as if a religion. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one-it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants.” - Harold Cruse 2 “America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. “I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

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