Some Iranians arrive believing in an inherited racial whiteness

Evidence

Third, Iranians bring to the United States a wide range of secular and religious cultural practices, including a deeply held belief among some that Iranians are no less than the In short, a highly educated, high-income population of legally white immigrants who arrive already believing in their own racial whiteness should predict a relatively straightforward, easy path into whiteness, according to theories of assimilation. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 62

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Iranians are legally white yet visibly raced in daily life — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 13; Iranian Americans arrived with legal whiteness and Aryan nationalist ideologies — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 548; The first generation inherited Aryan whiteness from Iranian state socialization — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 379 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The first generation inherited Aryan whiteness from Iranian state socialization #expands (0.90) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 379
• Iranian Americans arrived with legal whiteness and Aryan nationalist ideologies #expands (0.85) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 548
• Iranians are legally white yet visibly raced in daily life #qualifies (0.75) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 13
• Iranians are legally white yet socially non-white in America #complicates (0.75) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 90