Whiteness can be intermittently granted and revoked for non-Western groups

Evidence

To date, studies of American whiteness have centered on European or Anglo contexts and diasporas and consistently tell a unidirectional story of how groups become white. Thus, sociologists and historians have shown, for example, how the Irish were paid in “wages of whiteness,” how Italians were made “white on arrival,” and how “Jews became white folks.” Barring a few exceptions, there has been little orientation toward examining two areas: whiteness and its related logics of exclusion for non-Western groups, and how whiteness can be intermittently granted and revoked, or mismatched in the law and on the ground. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 48

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the assimilationist wages-of-whiteness literature (Roediger, Ignatiev, Brodkin) the reader will weigh against the Iranian non-Western reversal case. — connects to: Legal Whiteness once coexisted with social racial inferiority for European groups — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 386; Legal whiteness did not confer social privileges of whiteness — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 354; Closer proximity to whiteness can intensify exclusion rather than reduce it — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 29 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Legal whiteness did not confer social privileges of whiteness #corroborates (0.88) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 354
• Legal Whiteness once coexisted with social racial inferiority for European groups #corroborates (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 386
• Whiteness is contingent on class, and disprivileged whites are marked as non-white #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1699
• Closer proximity to whiteness can intensify exclusion rather than reduce it #corroborates (0.82) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 29
• Assimilation lets some ethnic groups become White but never Blacks #corroborates (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 381
• Whiteness is structurally fragile, needing constant self-assertion to sustain its privilege #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1112
• Groups become White by renouncing cultural difference and proving state loyalty #qualifies (0.78)