Sommer is able to pass as a white American because she does not wear the hijab and has a lighter skin tone. She admitted in the interview that people do not identify her as someone from a racialized ethnic group. As her testimony reveals, when she is mistaken for anything, it is a white European ethnic. Because her husband Anglicized his name and is also light skinned, he was not on the Selectee List or subjected to random stops and searches.

QUESTION: How does this pattern of 'passing' connect to broader discussions of colorism within racialized minority communities?

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 151