The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race

On October 26, 2017, Neda Maghbouleh visited San Francisco State University to present at the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies' inaugural lecture.

Maghbouleh's presentation was based on her book The Limits of Whiteness (Stanford University Press, 2017). In it Maghbouleh shares the curious, under-theorized story of how Iranian Americans move across a white not-white color line. By contextualizing ethnographic data with neglected historical and legal evidence, she offers new evidence for how a “white” American immigrant group can become “brown,” and what such a transformation says about race in North America today.

Born in New York City and raised in Portland, Oregon, Neda Maghbouleh is assistant professor of sociology at University of Toronto. Her research addresses the everyday lives of racialized people, including a new study of Syrian refugees in Toronto, funded by the government of Canada’s Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, the College of Ethnic Studies, the School of Humanities and Liberal Studies, the Asian American Studies Department, and the Sociology and Sexuality Studies Department.

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