Missing Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11

Name: Missing Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11
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ISBN: 9780822344094

ISBN-10: 0822344092

ISBN-13: 9780822344094

Edition: 2009

Authors: Sunaina Marr Maira

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InMissing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the history of U.S. imperialism: in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Drawing on ethnographic research in a New England high school, Maira investigates the cultural dimensions of citizenship for South Asian Muslim students and their relationship to the state in the everyday contexts of education, labour, leisure, dissent, betrayal, and loss. The narratives of the mostly working-class youth she focuses on demonstrate how cultural citizenship is produced in school, at home, at work,…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after 9/11



Imperial Feelings: U.S. Empire and the War on Terror



Cultural Citizenship



Transnational Citizenship: Flexibility and Control



Economies of Citizenship: Work, Play, and Polyculturalism



Dissenting Citizenship: Orientalisms, Feminisms, and Dissenting Feelings



Missing: Fear, Complicity, and Solidarity



Note on Methods


Notes


Bibliography


Index