Second-generation Iranians refuse official white classification on forms

Evidence

I would never put white [on a form]. I would always put “other” and fill in “Middle Eastern.” Because I never considered myself white. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 191

Related

• White-classified Iranian Americans reject the white label for themselves. (similarity 0.86)
• Census officials forcibly recoded written-in Iranian identities as white (similarity 0.79)
• Immigration inspectors grouped Armenians with Persians and Afghans as racially nonwhite (similarity 0.78)
• Schools are the first institution to tell Iranian youth they are not really white (similarity 0.78)
• Earlier immigrants argued their own whiteness by distancing from Iranians (similarity 0.78)
• Legally-white Middle Easterners lack recourse since law can’t grasp white-on-white bias (similarity 0.78)
• Middle Easterners are too white for legal redress yet too non-white to escape racism (similarity 0.78)