Claiming whiteness fails when one’s appearance does not fit normative whiteness

Evidence

Given her failure to fit the normative appearance of whiteness in America, Donya understood that the internal racial logic her mother offered as consolation (“Tell them we are the original white people! We are Aryans, you know”) held little coherence beyond her front door. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 171

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: No American can actually prove they are white because whiteness is a fiction — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 63

Related

• No American can actually prove they are white because whiteness is a fiction (similarity 0.81)
• Self-identification and social perception of whiteness can diverge sharply for the same person. (similarity 0.80)