The 9/11 generation : youth, rights, and solidarity in the war on terror / Sunaina Marr Maira.
2016
HQ799.2.P6 M345 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
The 9/11 generation : youth, rights, and solidarity in the war on terror / Sunaina Marr Maira.
ISBN
9781479880515 (paperback)
9781479817696 (hardcover)
1479817694 (hardcover)
9781479817696 (hardcover)
1479817694 (hardcover)
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
x, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
HQ799.2.P6 M345 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.40835/09794
Summary
Since the attacks of 9/11, the banner of national security has led to intense monitoring of the politics of Muslim and Arab Americans. Young people from these communities have come of age in a time when the question of political engagement is both urgent and fraught. In The 9/11 Generation, Sunaina Marr Maira uses extensive ethnography to understand the meaning of political subjecthood and mobilization for Arab, South Asian, and Afghan American youth. Maira explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the "political," forging coalitions based on new racial and ethnic categories, even while under constant scrutiny and surveillance, and organizing around notions of civil rights and human rights. The 9/11 Generation explores the possibilities and pitfalls of rights-based organizing at a moment when the vocabulary of rights and democracy has been used to justify imperial interventions, such as the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maira further reconsiders political solidarity in cross-racial and interfaith alliances at a time when US, nationalism is understood as not just multicultural but also post-racial. Throughout, she weaves stories of post-9/11 youth activism through key debates about neoliberal democracy, the "radicalization" of Muslim youth, gender, and humanitarianism.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-294) and index.
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Table of Contents
The 9/11 generation in Silicon Valley
The new civil rights movement: cross-racial alliances and interfaith activism
Human rights, uncivil activism, and Palestinianization
More delicate than a flower, yet harder than a rock: human rights and humanitarianism in Af-Pak
Coming of age under surveillance: surveillance effects and the post-9/11 culture wars
Democracy and its others.
The new civil rights movement: cross-racial alliances and interfaith activism
Human rights, uncivil activism, and Palestinianization
More delicate than a flower, yet harder than a rock: human rights and humanitarianism in Af-Pak
Coming of age under surveillance: surveillance effects and the post-9/11 culture wars
Democracy and its others.