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The 9/11 Generation - Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror (Paperback)
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The 9/11 Generation - Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror (Paperback)
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Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on
Terror engage with the "political," even while they are under
constant scrutiny and surveillance 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 they are 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 U.S. 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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