Legally white Iranian Americans are simultaneously hypervisible in everyday racialization

Evidence

Caught in the chasm between formal ethno-racial invisibility and informal hypervisibility, Iranian Americans work, love, and live through a core social paradox: Their everyday experiences of racialization coexist with their legal, and in some cases, internal “whitewashing.” This paradox helps explain the frustration in Roya’s voice as she is folded into a unifying white racial category beside the same white counterparts from whom she, and other minorities in the United States, most often face social exclusion and prejudice. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 37

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the book’s central paradox: formal ethno-racial invisibility vs informal hypervisibility for Iranian Americans.
• XREF: connects to: Iranian Americans are legally white but are routinely racialized as non-white in schools — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 255; Iranians are legally white yet socially non-white in America — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 90; Iranians are legally white yet visibly raced in daily life — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 13 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Iranian Americans are legally white but are routinely racialized as non-white in schools #corroborates (1.00) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 255
• Iranians are legally white yet socially non-white in America #corroborates (1.00) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 90
• Iranians are legally white yet visibly raced in daily life #corroborates (1.00) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 13
• Iranian Americans face discrimination legally invisible because they are white by law. #qualifies (0.85) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 55
• Iranian Americans have been flexibly positioned inside and outside whiteness #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 1256
• Arabs and Iranians experience racism while being officially classified as white #expands (0.80) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 472