Although Syrian Christians were able to have some success accessing whiteness, particularly through naturalization, they were also not treated as fully white in the United States. Sarah Gualtieri (2009) chronicles the experiences of Syrian immigrants and their status as Syrians and Americans in the early twentieth century in Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora.

XREF: Relates to racial formation theory and the construction of whiteness in US immigration law, connecting to the broader history of naturalization and racial prerequisites. Builds on: "Arab Americans gained citizenship via legal whiteness in 1943"

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 524