Hajar Yazdiha (born 1983)[1] is an American sociologist focusing on the politics of inclusion and exclusion with regard to ethno-racial identities.[2] She is the author of the 2023 book, The Struggle for the People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.[1][2][3]
Yazdiha was born in Berlin to refugees from Iran.[1] She grew up in Northern Virginia.[1] She was inspired by a high school AP English teacher who wrote her a note saying, "You are one of a handful of true academics. Speak up and use your voice."[1]
In May 2023, Yazdiha published her first book,The Struggle for the People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement, which explores how the words of Martin Luther King Jr. have been co-opted and sanitized.[3][7][8] She was first inspired to write the book when reading coverage of the Abigail Fisher case against the University of Texas at Austin, in which she saw the words of King "were being misappropriated to claim affirmative action was anti-white racism."[2]
Yazdiha, Hajar (2022). "Racialized Organizations in Racialized Space: How Socio-spatial Divisions Activate Symbolic Boundaries in a Charter School and a Public School". Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 8 (4): 468–482. doi:10.1177/23326492221114811.
Yazdiha, Hajar (2021). "Toward a Du Boisian Framework of Immigrant Incorporation: Racialized Contexts, Relational Identities, and Muslim American Collective Action". Social Problems. 68 (2): 300–320. doi:10.1093/socpro/spaa058.
Yazdiha, Hajar (2020). "All the Muslims Fit to Print: Racial Frames as Mechanisms of Muslim Ethnoracial Formation in the New York Times from 1992 to 2010". Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 6 (4): 501–516. doi:10.1177/2332649220903747.
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