South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11

South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11

Masks of Threat

De, Aparajita

Lexington Books

05/2016

190

Dura

Inglês

9781498512527

How do contemporary cultural and literary texts from the diaspora or from South Asia iterate patterns of racial surveillance and prejudice against South Asians in the United States after 9/11? This collection delves into the underpinnings of American imperialism and identity politics after 9/11.
Introduction - South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11: Masks of Threat Aparajita De 1.Remembering the Air India Tragedy in an Age of Terror Chandrima Chakraborty 2.Sexy Sammy and Red Rosie? From Burning Books to the War on Terror John Hutnyk 3.Managing Race, Class, and Gender: Atlanta's South Asian American Muslims and the Localized Management of the Global war on Terror' Stanley Thangaraj 4.The city's changed': Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the Post 9/11 Urban Experience Hasan al Zayed 5.Between Performativity and Representation: Post 9/11 Muslim Masculinity in Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced Lopamudra Basu 6.Sikhs aren't Terrorists, those Arabs are': Examining Solidarity along Racial and Generational Lines in Sharat Raju's American Made Sarah Wahab 7.Terror Narratives: Art, Music and the post 9/11 Surveillance Culture Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt Epilogue - Racialization and Resistance: The Double Bind of Post-9/11 Brown Nitasha Sharma