The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race
In this talk, based on her new book The Limits of Whiteness (2017, Stanford University Press), sociologist Neda Maghbouleh shares the under-theorized and sometimes heartbreaking story of how Iranian American young adults and teenagers move across a white/not-white color line. By contextualizing her ethnographic data with a century’s worth of neglected historical and legal evidence, she offers new evidence for how a “white” American immigrant group might become “brown,” and what such a transformation says about race in North America today.