Census whiteness contradicts the everyday social exclusion of Iranian Americans

Evidence

The second-generation youth whose stories make up this book grapple with an on-the-ground white racial category that seems to tighten and shrink to exclude Iranians every where except the census. … Iranians, who have from their arrival in the United States been legally situated inside whiteness, have been simultaneously escorted, framed, and deported out of its everyday social limits. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 554

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the legal-vs-social race gap documented for intermarried Asian and Latinx populations in mainstream assimilation scholarship. — connects to: Proximity to whiteness increases rather than reduces Iranian American racialization — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 1388; Assimilation theory fails to predict Iranian Americans’ exclusion from whiteness — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 63; Iranian identity is not fixed as white but shifts across everyday sites. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 67 (+1 more)

Related

• Proximity to whiteness increases rather than reduces Iranian American racialization (similarity 0.88)
• Iranian experience reveals what official whiteness can and cannot protect. (similarity 0.87)
• Assimilation markers give Iranian Americans little protection from racist portrayal (similarity 0.87)
• Iranian identity is not fixed as white but shifts across everyday sites. (similarity 0.87)
• Assimilation theory fails to predict Iranian Americans’ exclusion from whiteness (similarity 0.87)
• Assimilation into whiteness fails where physical difference is perceived (similarity 0.87)
• Iranians have been positioned across the American color line for over a century. (similarity 0.86)
• Iran has functioned as a racial fencepost determining whiteness’s boundaries (similarity 0.85)
• Iranians were legally whitened and immediately targeted with racial hostility (similarity 0.85)
• Second-generation Iranian American youth reject predicted assimilation because they see through their legal whiteness (similarity 0.85)
• Iranians are legally white yet visibly raced in daily life (similarity 0.85)
• Iranian Americans are legally white but are routinely racialized as non-white in schools (similarity 0.84)
• Social whiteness on the ground remains elusive for Iranian Americans (similarity 0.84)
• Some Iranians arrive believing in an inherited racial whiteness (similarity 0.84)
• Iranians are legally white yet socially non-white in America (similarity 0.83)