Read this #OpenAccess article by Amanda Sahar d’Urso in American Political Science Review, "What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans"
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What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans By Amanda Sahar d’Urso, Georgetown University Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Americans are politically visible yet institutionally invisible, long categorized as “white” by the U.S. government despite neither self-categorizing nor racially assigned as such. Most forms—across public and private sectors—still lack a “MENA” category option.
