Sociologist Tariq Modood has remarked on the damaging effects of this homogenization, which tended often to privilege African American models of identification and struggle over the Asian experience. He describes how "when this American anti-racist movement was pursued in Britain, it highlighted a problem, for in Britain there was also a second cleavage: a West Indian–Asian dualism. Despite the different political and cultural histories that this cleavage represented, British anti-racism, having accepted the opposition between black and white, continued to deny any political or anti-racist strategic significance to this internal division."

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 152