Iranian Americans arrived with high education and income from the 1950s

Evidence

First, since their earliest mass arrival as university students in the 1950s, Iranians have disproportionately entered with training and experience in specialty occupations like engineering and medicine and possess higher rates of educational attainment and income than other legally white Americans. Given this socioeconomic profile, earlier research on Iranian Americans has drawn on theories of assimilation and ethnic incorporation to make sense of middleand upper-class Iranian American lives. This literature notes a weakening of ethnic language, customs, and identities among the second generation, particularly via intermarriage and spatial integration. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 60

Categorization

• FICTION: flagged by the selector, no supporting note recorded
• XREF: connects to: The 1953 coup enabled Western control over Iran’s oil and educated elite — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 78

Broader Connections

• The 1953 coup enabled Western control over Iran’s oil and educated elite #expands (0.72) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 78