This article examines the
cultural hybridity of Iranian American and Latinx/a/o identity within the American
hegemonic state. The work excavates peer-reviewed sources on postcolonial narratives, the politics of
identity, and the dyadic characteristics of multiculturalism within the civic
realm. Gloria Anzaldúa’s (1987) Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza can be used to
understand how the theoretics of racial double-consciousness is prominent in
both Iranian American and Latinx/a/o backgrounds, through cultural
representation and labeling practice. In understanding ethnic ontology and how
ethnic groups redefine their social reality, I correlate the concept of ‘ethnoraciality’ with racial ‘double-consciousness’
according to Anzaldúa (1987). By reviewing cultural media representations in
the form of Latino mimetic desire and Spanglish code-switching employed on
screen, I center its amplified settler-colonial narrative.Ancient-modern
stories promote a reconditioning of the exilic Iranian American and Latinx/a/o
subject, while helping explain their representational employment in racial
double-lens theory (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 1981). Ultimately, I question
the ethnic factors that define one’s homeland in both the allegorical and
literal sense. Homeland, as it is understood in its ahistorical, and exilic
geographic nature, overshadows the academic prospects of modernity, and
maintains a convoluted residence within the Iranian American and Latinx/a/o
psyche.
