Hadi Khoshnevi
Biographic Data
| ID | 158125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hadi Khoshnevi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hadi |
| FAMILY NAME | Khoshnevi |
| SIGNATURE | KHOSHNEVI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5694-6389 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The US Census, the Mena Campaign, and Classification Struggles
In this paper, I explore the history of the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) campaign, which aims to extract Southwest Asian and North Africa populations from the white legal category on the US Census. I use Bourdieu's classification struggles and theory of field to make sense of different approaches to this campaign. The data presented in the paper are gathered from 65 qualitative interviews with activists and citizens with Southwest Asia…
State of Exception, Necropolitics, and Puerto Rico
Right after Hurricane Irma hit Puerto Rico and Florida, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017. Around the same time Harvey hit Texas. The vast difference in the treatment of Puerto Rico as a US territory, compared to Florida and Texas on the "mainland," sparked conversations about the location of Puerto Rico in the US imagination and policies. The media coverage of the disaster and the statements from officials made it cl…
Accruing whiteness
In this paper, I explore the role that immigrants from the ‘Middle East’ (Southwest Asia) and their applications for citizenship played in the construction of whiteness in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. I examine this role by studying six major citizenship applications through which immigrants from Southwest Asia ‘achieved’ whiteness. The legal cases examined below reveal how the first wave of immigrants from Southw…
Film Review
Systemic Anti-Black Racism Must Be Dismantled
The inferior white
In this paper, I argue that racialization, as a process whose initiation and preservation requires collaboration between state institutions, elites, and citizens, can be better understood in relation to colonial histories and in the current context of colonial situation, and by transcending the corporeal conception of racialization. By looking specifically into the case of people from the Middle East in the US, an ethnically and racially diverse …
A home to which I don't belong
Theories of assimilation are founded upon the assumption that through generations, immigrant communities will ‘progressively’ and ‘irreversibly’ proceed towards a white middle-class centre. In this article, I examine the explanatory sufficiency and precision of these assumptions by drawing on interviews with US citizens of Middle Eastern and North African background. My findings show that although people from the Middle East and North Africa – as…
Accountability in a state of liminality
This paper studies the lived experience of Iranian students upon arrival at American airports. By using two concepts of liminality and accountability, I examine how Iranian students walk the gauntlet of US airports, and study the influences of the treatment they receive at airports on their perceptions of the US. Empirically, I draw on 15 in-depth qualitative interviews with eight Iranian students at a Southern university in the US. The paper pos…
The inferior white
In this paper, I argue that racialization, as a process whose initiation and preservation requires collaboration between state institutions, elites, and citizens, can be better understood in relation to colonial histories and in the current context of colonial situation, and by transcending the corporeal conception of racialization. By looking specifically into the case of people from the Middle East in the US, an ethnically and racially diverse …
A home to which I don't belong
Theories of assimilation are founded upon the assumption that through generations, immigrant communities will ‘progressively’ and ‘irreversibly’ proceed towards a white middle-class centre. In this article, I examine the explanatory sufficiency and precision of these assumptions by drawing on interviews with US citizens of Middle Eastern and North African background. My findings show that although people from the Middle East and North Africa – as…
Accountability in a state of liminality
This paper studies the lived experience of Iranian students upon arrival at American airports. By using two concepts of liminality and accountability, I examine how Iranian students walk the gauntlet of US airports, and study the influences of the treatment they receive at airports on their perceptions of the US. Empirically, I draw on 15 in-depth qualitative interviews with eight Iranian students at a Southern university in the US. The paper pos…
Accruing whiteness
In this paper, I explore the role that immigrants from the ‘Middle East’ (Southwest Asia) and their applications for citizenship played in the construction of whiteness in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. I examine this role by studying six major citizenship applications through which immigrants from Southwest Asia ‘achieved’ whiteness. The legal cases examined below reveal how the first wave of immigrants from Southw…
Systemic Anti-Black Racism Must Be Dismantled
The US Census, the Mena Campaign, and Classification Struggles
In this paper, I explore the history of the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) campaign, which aims to extract Southwest Asian and North Africa populations from the white legal category on the US Census. I use Bourdieu's classification struggles and theory of field to make sense of different approaches to this campaign. The data presented in the paper are gathered from 65 qualitative interviews with activists and citizens with Southwest Asia…
Accountability in a state of liminality
This paper studies the lived experience of Iranian students upon arrival at American airports. By using two concepts of liminality and accountability, I examine how Iranian students walk the gauntlet of US airports, and study the influences of the treatment they receive at airports on their perceptions of the US. Empirically, I draw on 15 in-depth qualitative interviews with eight Iranian students at a Southern university in the US. The paper pos…
The inferior white
In this paper, I argue that racialization, as a process whose initiation and preservation requires collaboration between state institutions, elites, and citizens, can be better understood in relation to colonial histories and in the current context of colonial situation, and by transcending the corporeal conception of racialization. By looking specifically into the case of people from the Middle East in the US, an ethnically and racially diverse …
A home to which I don't belong
Theories of assimilation are founded upon the assumption that through generations, immigrant communities will ‘progressively’ and ‘irreversibly’ proceed towards a white middle-class centre. In this article, I examine the explanatory sufficiency and precision of these assumptions by drawing on interviews with US citizens of Middle Eastern and North African background. My findings show that although people from the Middle East and North Africa – as…
Film Review
Systemic Anti-Black Racism Must Be Dismantled
Accruing whiteness
In this paper, I explore the role that immigrants from the ‘Middle East’ (Southwest Asia) and their applications for citizenship played in the construction of whiteness in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. I examine this role by studying six major citizenship applications through which immigrants from Southwest Asia ‘achieved’ whiteness. The legal cases examined below reveal how the first wave of immigrants from Southw…
State of Exception, Necropolitics, and Puerto Rico
Right after Hurricane Irma hit Puerto Rico and Florida, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017. Around the same time Harvey hit Texas. The vast difference in the treatment of Puerto Rico as a US territory, compared to Florida and Texas on the "mainland," sparked conversations about the location of Puerto Rico in the US imagination and policies. The media coverage of the disaster and the statements from officials made it cl…
The US Census, the Mena Campaign, and Classification Struggles
In this paper, I explore the history of the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) campaign, which aims to extract Southwest Asian and North Africa populations from the white legal category on the US Census. I use Bourdieu's classification struggles and theory of field to make sense of different approaches to this campaign. The data presented in the paper are gathered from 65 qualitative interviews with activists and citizens with Southwest Asia…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · History (3 works)