An exciting, new exhibit opened at UCLA's Fowler Museum over the weekend:
Document: Iranian Americans in Los Angeles. It's based around photographs of and by Iranians in LA, and what makes it really interesting is the focus on "the second generation." Since the 90s Bozorgmehr, Mahdi, and others have been calling for further understanding, documentation, and analysis on the second generation, but over the years very few have gone there. On the other hand, I can see this starting to change as second generation Iranian Americans start studying, documenting, and representing themselves, and in doing so, construct their "selves" in idiosyncratically second-generation ways, which are at times contiguous with, and other times distinct from, their parents' generation. All this is part of the ongoing process of making and remaking Iranian American-ness that's happening today in unique ways.
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