Roughly 3 million people of Southwest Asian, Middle Eastern or North African descent live in the U.S. — around 350,000 of them in L.A. More than 80% have called themselves white in census surveys, found an LATimes analysis by sarahparvini & emsimani
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— including MENA. Government research showed that Middle Eastern and North African people would check the MENA box if given the option. Without it, they would opt for white or “some other race.” Damavandi was in the second grade at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That was when it became obvious that she wasn’t white, she said. She was bullied because of her background.
The generational schism has narrowed for some after President Trump’s inauguration, said Neda Maghbouleh, author of “The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race.” The tongue-in-cheek campaign encouraged people to choose “some other race” and sought to combat the notion that Arabs and Iranians are white — an idea that experts say has roots in a legal battle from the early 1900s. Arab immigrants from modern-day Syria and Lebanon, who were considered Asian, successfully fought to be classified as white and thus eligible for citizenship.
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