Boxed In: Reclassification of Arab Americans on the U.S. Census as Progress or Peril?

Published in Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (2016)

Deemed white by law since 1944, the 2020 U.S. census may afford Arab Americans with the unprecedented opportunity to identify as Middle-Eastern or North African (MENA), and thus, non white. This article is the first scholarly intervention examining this proposed reform, the converging government interests spurring this moment of “racial progress” and the civil liberties concerns it raises for Arab Americans.