Across intermarried and non-intermarried families only elders construct whiteness
Evidence
In fact, nearly one-quarter were raised in mixed households that included a non-Iranian parent or stepparent. Yet, across al families, when the “What race are we?” conversation came up, as it often did, white Iranian identities were exclusively constructed and fostered by elders. That is, in accounts by youth of everyday household talk, Iranianness was made synonymous with whiteness through a constel ation of mutually reinforcing, deeply racial explanations offered by parents and other older adults. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 173
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- Iranian family racial talk repeatedly centers the Aryan myth and Persian exceptionalism (similarity 0.85)
- Iranian Americans hold internal racial narratives including antiblack discourse and family-superiority beliefs (similarity 0.82)
- The first generation inherited Aryan whiteness from Iranian state socialization (similarity 0.82)
- Social experience, not family ideology, determines second-generation Iranian racial identification (similarity 0.80)
- First-generation Iranian parents teach their children that Iranians are Aryan whites (similarity 0.80)
- Parents selectively use American experiences to confirm white self-identification, leaving family secrets unspoken. (similarity 0.80)
- Schools are the first institution to tell Iranian youth they are not really white (similarity 0.80)
- Iranians are legally white yet visibly raced in daily life (similarity 0.80)
- Census whiteness contradicts the everyday social exclusion of Iranian Americans (similarity 0.79)
- Iranians have been positioned across the American color line for over a century. (similarity 0.79)
- Ethnicity, nationality, and religion cannot fully explain anti-Iranian bias (similarity 0.79)
- White adults’ families pressed Iranian American children on geopolitics despite knowing their ties. (similarity 0.79)
- Iranian identity is not fixed as white but shifts across everyday sites. (similarity 0.79)
- White-classified Iranian Americans reject the white label for themselves. (similarity 0.79)
- Iranian Americans arrived with legal whiteness and Aryan nationalist ideologies (similarity 0.78)