Census officials forcibly recoded written-in Iranian identities as white

Evidence

For decades, individuals who chose the “some other race” box and wrote in “Iranian” or “Middle Eastern,” for example, were treated as having mislabeled their racial classification and recoded by the Census Bureau as “white.” — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 1405

Categorization

• XREF: A state-level analogue of the reader’s concern: institutional force holds subjects inside an assigned essentialist category despite their attempt to opt out — relevance to whether irony/residence is individually chosen or structurally imposed. — connects to: The Census Bureau has recoded self-described Iranians as white for decades — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 592

Broader Connections

• The Census Bureau has recoded self-described Iranians as white for decades #corroborates (0.98) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 592