The Muslim Americans I interviewed lived in suburban neighborhoods and had access to resourced public and private schools. They were middleto upper-middle-class citizens who had access to resources that have historically been denied to many African Americans due to structural racism, like residential racial segregation and disparities in the American public education system. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 opened the borders of the United States to professionals and highly educated immigrants from Pakistan, India, Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon, and so South Asians and Arabs migrated to the United States after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, which subjected housing and employment practices to legal action if they were discriminatory in practice.

XREF: Connects to comparative analysis of Muslim American and African American class positions — a through-line relevant to the book's broader argument about race and class.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 458