Title The limits of whiteness : Iranian Americans and the everyday politics of race / Neda Maghbouleh

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages) Contents Being white -- In the past -- At home -- In school -- To the homeland -- At summer camp -- Being brown Summary When Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be the "original" white race. But based on the treatment Roya and her family receive in American schools, airports, workplaces, and neighborhoods--interactions characterized by intolerance or hate--Roya is increasingly certain that she is not white. In The Limits of Whiteness, Neda Maghbouleh offers a groundbreaking, timely look at how Iranians and other Middle Eastern Americans move across the color line. By shadowing Roya and more than 80 other young people, Maghbouleh documents Iranian Americans' shifting racial status. Drawing on never-before-analyzed historical and legal evidence, she captures the unique experience of an immigrant group trapped between legal racial invisibility and everyday racial hyper-visibility. Her findings are essential for understanding the unprecedented challenge Middle Easterners now face under "extreme vetting" and potential reclassification out of the "white" box. Maghbouleh tells for the first time the compelling, often heartbreaking story of how a white American immigrant group can become brown and what such a transformation says about race in America Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Iranian Americans -- Race identity Iranian Americans -- Ethnic identity Iranian Americans -- Social conditions Racism -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Iranian Americans -- Ethnic identity Iranian Americans -- Social conditions Race relations Racism SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2017017045 ISBN 9781503603431 1503603431

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