Maryam's statement clearly highlights the impact the hijab has on one's racial identity: "Before I started wearing the hijab, I never felt like a minority. It wasn't until after I started to wear the hijab that I realized what it was like to be a minority in this country." The hijab stripped her of her whiteness.

DEFINE: Illustrates how racial identity is socially constructed through visible markers, here the hijab altering perceived whiteness.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 458