Neda Maghbouleh > Quotes

“Iranian Americans today find themselves caught in racial loopholes in which they are not white enough to escape racially motivated discrimination and hate crimes, but are too white to reliably secure race-based protection and legal redress for the violent and discriminatory acts committed against them.”
― Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

“Despite their legal classification as white, the twenty-first-century experiences of Iranians and other Middle Easterners exemplify an extension of Mia Tuan’s concept of the “forever foreigner” in which no degree of citizenship, legal whiteness, occupational and education success, assimilatory efforts, or self-identification as “American” render Middle Easterners fully white in day-to-day life.”
― Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race