We too sing America : South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh immigrants shape our multiracial future

Iyer, Deepa (Deepa Vasudeva) 1972- (Author).

Summary: "Since 9/11, we continue to incomplete and sanitized histories hat neglect the experiences of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh immigrant communities in the United States. Activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the relentless opposition to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan. Iyer places the hate violence, Islamophobia, and xenophobia in a broader context -- that of an American racial landscape undergoing a rapid and radical demographic transformation. Iyer shows how South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh immigrant communities engage in ... undocumented youth, Black Lives Matter, and Black-Brown coalitions that can inspire new directions for racial justice in the United States."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781620970140
ISBN: 1620970147
ISBN: 9781620971215
ISBN: 1620971216
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: New York : The New Press, 2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	"Not our American Dream": the Oak Creek massacre and hate violence -- Journeys in a racial state -- Surveillance nation -- Islamophobia in the Bible Belt -- Disruptors and bridge builders -- Undocumented youth rise up -- Ferguson is everywhere -- We too sing America -- Appendix A: Race talks -- Appendix B: Data on race in America.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed June 16, 2020).