Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11
Modern Times Bookstore, Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 7:30pm
Sunaina Maira discusses Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11.
In Missing, Sunaina Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. This thorough investigation unfolds through the narratives of working class South Asian Muslim students into the cultural dimensions of citizenship and relationships to the state in the everyday contexts of education, labor, leisure, dissent, betrayal, and loss. (Duke University Press) (janiceflux)… (more)
In Missing, Sunaina Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. This thorough investigation unfolds through the narratives of working class South Asian Muslim students into the cultural dimensions of citizenship and relationships to the state in the everyday contexts of education, labor, leisure, dissent, betrayal, and loss. (Duke University Press) (janiceflux)… (more)
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