The Census Bureau has recoded self-described Iranians as white for decades

Evidence

For decades, individuals who chose the “some other race” box and wrote in “Iranian” or “Middle Eastern,” for example, were treated as having mislabeled their racial classification and recoded by the Census Bureau as “white.” — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 592

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how bureaucratic data-cleaning erases an entire group’s racial self-identification.
• SEED: The ‘some other race’ write-in being silently recoded is a strong hook for an essay on administrative erasure.
• XREF: connects to: Census officials forcibly recoded written-in Iranian identities as white — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 1405

Related

• Census officials forcibly recoded written-in Iranian identities as white (similarity 0.94)
• Iranian American groups mobilized to instruct members to refuse the white box (similarity 0.78)
• Iranian American organizations mobilized strategic census identity claims for political power (similarity 0.78)