The term invisible minority reflects how many Arabs have been marginalized, yet their experiences with racism have largely been ignored because they are racially classified as white according to the U.S. Census (Tehranian 2010).

QUESTION: How would data collection and civil rights protections shift if Arabs were counted as a distinct racial category? This tension between classification and lived experience invites further investigation.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 458