No enemy-state immigrant group lost its social standing faster than Iranians
Evidence
No other immigrant group … from an “enemy state” has been so politicized, publicly despised, stigmatized, and traumatized by the U.S. government as have Iranians… . No other immigrant group from a former ally country of the United States has lost its positive social image so quickly and has been so misrepresented, stereotyped, misunderstood, and made to feel unwelcome despite its overall high socioeconomic status and record of accomplishment in a short period as Iranians have. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 89
Categorization
- SHARE: Worth sending to anyone working on immigrant racialization or diaspora studies: the speed of status collapse here appears historically unique even among enemy-state groups.
- XREF: connects to: Terrorism racialization evolved from Arabs to Iranians and South Asians from the late 1960s — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 215
Related
- Iranians were legally whitened and immediately targeted with racial hostility (similarity 0.79)
- Socioeconomic success and legal whiteness do not guarantee protection from racial browning (similarity 0.79)
- Iranians are legally white yet socially non-white in America (similarity 0.78)
- Iranians have been positioned across the American color line for over a century. (similarity 0.78)