Powerful...
Iyer catalogues the toll that various forms of discrimination have taken and highlights the inspiring ways activists are fighting back.
Reframing the discussion of race in America, she reaches into the complexities of the many cultures that make up South Asia ( Publishers Weekly ) and provides ideas from the front lines of post-9/11 America..
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.
In the American Book Award-winning We Too Sing America , nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer shows that this is the latest in a series of recent racial flash points, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan. -- The Washington Post NOW IN PAPERBACK The nationally renowned racial justice advocate\'s illumination of the ongoing persecution of a range of American minorities In the lead-up to the recent presidential election, Donald Trump called for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States, surveillance against mosques, and a database for all Muslims living in the country, tapping into anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria to a degree little seen since the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. [She] is an ideal chronicler of this experience.
Powerful...
Iyer catalogues the toll that various forms of discrimination have taken and highlights the inspiring ways activists are fighting back
