Iranian Americans hold internal racial narratives including antiblack discourse and family-superiority beliefs
Evidence
Antiblack discourse and symbols in Iranian culture and history, along with ethnocentric beliefs about the primacy of Iranian family values over those found in sefid (white) America, are just two of many other interrelated internal Iranian American racial narratives this book does not analyze. For the latter, an emerging field in Iranian studies, see interview with Baghoolizadeh in Grillot, Hardinski, and Dyson 2015. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 693
Categorization
- XREF: Directly parallels the ethnocentric family-value claims deployed by whites in US racial discourse; connects to the internalized hierarchies in Things Fall Apart.
Related
- Iranian family racial talk repeatedly centers the Aryan myth and Persian exceptionalism (similarity 0.85)
- Iranian internalized racism positions Iranians as Aryan and superior to Arabs, expunging India (similarity 0.82)
- Across intermarried and non-intermarried families only elders construct whiteness (similarity 0.82)
- Iranians have been positioned across the American color line for over a century. (similarity 0.81)
- Iranians are legally white yet visibly raced in daily life (similarity 0.81)
- Iranian identity is not fixed as white but shifts across everyday sites. (similarity 0.81)
- Iranian Americans arrived with legal whiteness and Aryan nationalist ideologies (similarity 0.81)
- Ethnicity, nationality, and religion cannot fully explain anti-Iranian bias (similarity 0.81)
- Iranian Americans equate being American with being white (similarity 0.81)
- Some Iranians arrive believing in an inherited racial whiteness (similarity 0.80)
- Iranian Americans’ everyday experiences of exclusion are rarely analyzed through a race lens. (similarity 0.80)
- Census whiteness contradicts the everyday social exclusion of Iranian Americans (similarity 0.80)
- Schools are the first institution to tell Iranian youth they are not really white (similarity 0.80)
- Iranian Americans are legally white but are routinely racialized as non-white in schools (similarity 0.80)
- Iranian experience reveals what official whiteness can and cannot protect. (similarity 0.79)