Lexington Books
Pages: 190
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-1252-7 • Hardback • May 2016 • $123.00 • (£95.00)
978-1-4985-3814-5 • Paperback • March 2018 • $53.99 • (£42.00)
978-1-4985-1253-4 • eBook • May 2016 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
Aparajita De is assistant professor of English at the University of the District of Columbia
Introduction - South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11: Masks of ThreatAparajita De- Remembering the Air India Tragedy in an Age of Terror
Chandrima Chakraborty- Sexy Sammy and Red Rosie? From Burning Books to the War on Terror
John Hutnyk- Managing Race, Class, and Gender: Atlanta’s South Asian American Muslims and the Localized Management of the ‘Global war on Terror’
Stanley Thangaraj- ‘The city’s changed’: Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the Post 9/11 Urban Experience
Hasan al Zayed- Between Performativity and Representation: Post 9/11 Muslim Masculinity in Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced
Lopamudra Basu- ‘Sikhs aren’t Terrorists, those Arabs are’: Examining Solidarity along Racial and Generational Lines in Sharat Raju’s American Made
Sarah Wahab- Terror Narratives: Art, Music and the post 9/11 Surveillance Culture
Reshmi Dutt-BallerstadtEpilogue - Racialization and Resistance: The Double Bind of Post-9/11 Brown Nitasha Sharma
Aparajita De has compiled an excellent collection of essays for understanding the predicament of the South Asian diaspora amidst the racialized perception in the West that the majority of South Asians are in some way affiliated with terrorism. . . . This anthology is a book that almost every diasporic South Asian professional working in different countries should add to his/her library and read carefully for his/her safety and for adjusting himself/herself in a significantly racialized society. . . Aparajita De's anthology opens up immense possibilities for studying the ambivalent contemporary imagery in the depiction of the South Asian and Middle Eastern diasporas in North America and Europe.
— Journal Of Commonwealth And Postcolonial Studies
South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11: Masks of Threat is a rich cross-disciplinary and multivoiced work that explores a post 9/11 world in which political and cultural edifices entrenched by imperial discourse have sanctified the convenient “first world–third world” dichotomy. Institutional transnational politics have facilitated the construction of the “third world” subject as an eternally feral being whose essential savagery is not amenable to socio-cultural conditioning. The dissemination of transnational practices in this world, effectively examined in South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11: Masks of Threat, entails the transterritorialization of various socioeconomic, political, and cultural practices and identities that frequently bolster the formation and reconstruction of the nation-state. This collection of essays is a much needed sociological exploration of how transnational politics often emphasize a conception of identity polarized between the “authentic” and the “demonic.”
— Nyla Ali Khan, Rose State College
This book is a unique and timely collection that investigates the new racialization of South Asians after 9/11 through the rubric of culture. It complements socio-historical studies of Islamophobia while offering a specific contribution to cultural studies of Brown racialization after 9/11. Above all, this important book brings much-needed visibility to the diversity and resiliency of South Asian lives, far beyond the ‘model minority’ versus ‘terrorist’ dichotomy that fuels state policy and the media gaze.
— Pranav Jani, Ohio State University