We Too Sing America: South Asia, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future

Iyer, Deepa

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Annotation: In a book that reframes the discussion of race in America, a brilliant young activist provides ideas from the front lines of post-9/11 America.

Genre: [Social sciences]

Reviews: 2

Catalog Number: #122384

Format: Publisher's Hardcover

Publisher: Publishers Group West

Edition Date: 2015 Release Date: 10/27/15

Pages: xvii, 229 pages

ISBN: 1-620-97014-7

ISBN 13: 978-1-620-97014-0

Dewey: 305.80097309

LCCN: 2015020036

Dimensions: 22 cm.

Subject Heading:
Immigrants. United States. Social conditions. 21st century.
Hate crimes. United States. History. 21st century.
Racism. United States. History. 21st century.
Xenophobia. United States. History. 21st century.
Islamophobia. United States. History. 21st century.
United States. Race relations. 21st century.

Language: English

Reviews:

ALA Booklist (Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 CDT 2015)

Tracing the impact of xenophobia and Islamophobia in the U.S. since 9/11, Iyer draws on the personal experiences of young immigrants uth Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh communities experiencing backlash and hate crimes. She also weaves in her own story of moving to Kentucky from India when she was 12: "how it felt not to belong to either side of the Black or White racial line." With her focus on the post-9/11 world, she shows how the government has targeted groups for "national security reasons," forcibly arresting individuals without cause, and she notes how even those with U.S. citizenship are perceived as "perpetual foreigners." The many individual profiles grab the reader with their personal voices (What is it like to be gay and Muslim and also to come out as "undocumented"?). Connections are also drawn to today's headlines across the U. S., from Ferguson to Black Lives Matter to Silicon Valley, as well as to the treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Great for discussion, especially about the meaning of multiracial and multicultural America.

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Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-210) and index.

Reading Level: 9.0

Interest Level: 9+

Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade and a half. In We Too Sing America , nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan. Iyer asks whether hate crimes should be considered domestic terrorism and explores the role of the state in perpetuating racism through detentions, national registration programs, police profiling, and constant surveillance. She looks at topics including Islamophobia in the Bible Belt; the "Bermuda Triangle" of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria; and the energy of new reform movements, including those of "undocumented and unafraid" youth and Black Lives Matter. In a book that reframes the discussion of race in America, a brilliant young activist provides ideas from the front lines of post-9/11 America.

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