We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
A nonfiction study of how South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh immigrants have shaped the United States while facing prejudice and exclusion after 9/11.
Book Information
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Published
- 2015-10-27
- Pages
- 256 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 17.15 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781620970140
- ISBN-10
- 1620970147
- Price
- 8097 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States/21st Century
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.
A leading racial justice activist, Deepa Iyer served for a decade as the executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), focusing on community building in post-9/11 America. She teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Reviews
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This book really helped me understand the history and continuing reality of personal and structural discrimination against South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the U.S. Deepa Iyer's combination of historical fact (e.g. U.S. security and immigration policies) and their intersections in real people's lives made for a powerful call to action on behalf of all concerned parties to organize for justice. I felt both educated and impassioned with a sense of urgency to take steps to defeat white supremacy, although it benefits me personally, to ensure a safe and prosperous environment for everyone in our community.
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Deeps Iyer puts fantastic spotlights on individuals and communities across America who are actively pursuing the more perfect Union our country should represent. She shares truthful histories of tragedy and triumph, and brilliantly discusses how modern everyday South Asians, Arabs, Muslims, and Sikhs can transform American realities. There is no single approach for success, and Ms. Iyer explores the complexities of causes, identity, and activism that all of us as "brown folks" (my term, not hers) encounter. I'm fired up and eager to engage in more social justice movements after reading this.
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Deepa Iyer 's book, We Too Sing America is the best book for better, comprehensive, and more nuanced understandings underscored by important solid qualitative and quantitative data, on South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh immigrants and how these great American populations must be included in our thoughts, policies, actions, and empathies if we are to achieve American aspirations such as equality, equity, freedom, and truly value the greatness of these individuals and cultures to our own professional, community, and personal lives.
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Powerful! Insightful! Hopeful!
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Lots of causation from correlation. It seems as if the author is attempting to push a political agenda rather than reveal facts. It is also a recurring theme that antiracism/ post-racial ideals are only achievable through absolving all responsibility from all racial groups, while extending said responsibilities to 'The white man'. I'd consult many sources while navigating this text.