Peer racial solidarity among non-white classmates can rescue assimilating minorities

Evidence

Some of Roya’s high school classmates, on the other hand, understood the rules of race in America differently, or perhaps they played by different rules altogether: [They] were like, “You’re brown, little chola girl; come sit with us.” And you know, because my last name was different, I’m hairy, I’m Persian, my neighborhood, I was almost ashamed of my identity. But Mexican people accepted me. They saved me from hating me. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 14

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Provides a living, personal counterpoint for the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s theme of groups claimed by non-white solidarity; also a raw illustration of how informal racial assignment overrides the legal box.
• XREF: connects to: Doing well in school can be coded by minority peers as betraying one’s culture — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1300