Article
Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans: Criminalization and Cultural Citizenship
Amerasia Journal
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
28 p.
Publication Date
1-1-2005
Publisher
University of California Press
Disciplines
Abstract
In this essay, we further explore the responses of Arab and South Asian Muslim communities to the War on Terror, and ask whether these responses reveal alliance-building and pan-ethnic identification. Do the targeted groups, now portrayed as monolithic, find solidarity with each other, and if so, what are the bases for their sense of affinity. These questions force us to consider the deeper issues of pan-ethnic and political affiliation that highlight quandaries at the core of Asian American studies: how does a pan-ethnic approach challenge or support the racial and cultural categories used by state and empire to subordinate and divide populations?
Citation Information
Louise Cainkar and Sunaina Maira. "Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans: Criminalization and Cultural Citizenship" Amerasia Journal (2005) ISSN: 0044-7471 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/louise-cainkar/24/
Published version. Amerasia Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2005): 1-28. Publisher link. © 2005 University of California Press. Used with permission.
Louise Cainkar was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago at time of publication.