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Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11
In Missing, 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 cultur...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
May 1st 2009
by Duke University Press Books
(first published 2009)
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This book was rather interesting to me, but nothing I didn't know before except the specific details of the lives of the youths interviewed.
I found the relationships between the students if particular interest because often they demonstrate the issues the students face daily through the lens of children. The reader gets to see the issues Muslim immigrants deal with, but through the eyes of children who don't always understand what they are being subjected to. Thus, there is a certain a...more
I found the relationships between the students if particular interest because often they demonstrate the issues the students face daily through the lens of children. The reader gets to see the issues Muslim immigrants deal with, but through the eyes of children who don't always understand what they are being subjected to. Thus, there is a certain a...more
A superb book by a superb scholar. It comes highly recommended.
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