Iranian Americans equate being American with being white

Evidence

Iranian Americans, like Asian and white Americans, typically associate the identity category “American” as synonymous with “white.” African Americans, notably, depart from the “American = white” association. See Devos and Banaji 2005. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 715

Categorization

• XREF: Directly resonates with the ‘immodesty’ article’s theme of identity signaling and internalized category membership. — connects to: Offering a MENA option shifts Iranian Americans’ racial self-identification away from white — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 1404; Iranian Americans have been flexibly positioned inside and outside whiteness — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 1256

Related

• Offering a MENA option shifts Iranian Americans’ racial self-identification away from white (similarity 0.90)
• Minority groups differ in whether they equate American identity with whiteness (similarity 0.90)
• Iranian identity is not fixed as white but shifts across everyday sites. (similarity 0.86)
• Iranians have been positioned across the American color line for over a century. (similarity 0.85)
• Iranian Americans have been flexibly positioned inside and outside whiteness (similarity 0.85)
• Iranian Americans arrived with legal whiteness and Aryan nationalist ideologies (similarity 0.84)
• White-classified Iranian Americans reject the white label for themselves. (similarity 0.84)
• Iranian Americans are legally white but are routinely racialized as non-white in schools (similarity 0.83)
• Iranians are legally white yet visibly raced in daily life (similarity 0.82)
• Census whiteness contradicts the everyday social exclusion of Iranian Americans (similarity 0.82)
• Assimilation markers give Iranian Americans little protection from racist portrayal (similarity 0.82)
• Proximity to whiteness increases rather than reduces Iranian American racialization (similarity 0.81)
• Iranians are legally white yet socially non-white in America (similarity 0.81)
• Offering a MENA category drastically changes how Middle Easterners self-identify racially (similarity 0.81)
• Social experience, not family ideology, determines second-generation Iranian racial identification (similarity 0.81)