{"pk":54584,"title":"Ethno-Racial Boundary Making and Iranian-Identifying Americans","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Iranian-identifying Americans have been described as an ethnic group that exists between racial boundaries. Some believe Iranian-identifying people should be classified as White but others disagree. To examine individual Iranian-American perspectives on their ethno-racial identity, I utilize semi-structured qualitative interviews conducted over the duration of 3-4 months from the greater Los Angeles area. I organized participants’ analyses of their identity categories recounted in these interviews into boundary-making strategies. Results entail boundary-making strategies that were classified in the following four categories: dis-identification with White, identification with Aryan, an emphasis on mixing, and reclassification. Responses suggest there may be identifiable patterns emerging in ethno-racial classification based on demographic information.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"identity"},{"word":"Race"},{"word":"Ethnicity"},{"word":"Boundary-Making"},{"word":"Iranian-Americans"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v53f66m","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tania","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nasrollahi","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2021-09-21T01:27:38+03:00","date_accepted":"2021-09-21T01:27:38+03:00","date_published":"2021-01-01T03:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/alephucla/article/54584/galley/41136/download/"}]}