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This chapter focuses on race and discusses the various ways in which the second-generation research respondents deal with the long-running racialization of Iranians in the USA. It is based on observations and interviews about how respondents use web applications to represent their racialized bodies and narrate their experiences of racism within a multi-cultural society. It shows how a range of blogging practices help create self-representations that appropriate and/or reject various racial categorizations and forms of (in)visibility with complex relations to gender and class. Primarily using literature from second-generation studies and internet studies on race, the chapter argues that particular genres of self-narration are used to frame the second generation’s experiences of racialization as part of claims to inclusion in the USA. The chapter concludes by suggesting that conveying the visibly racialized body as a site of authentic experience relies on particular styles of presenting the self through web platforms.

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Alinejad, D. (2017). Race. In: The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47626-1_4

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