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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 latest presidential election, Donald Trump known as for a complete ban on Muslims entering the US, surveillance against mosques, and a database for all Muslims living in the country, tapping into anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria to a point little seen since the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11.
In the American Book Award–winning We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer shows that this is the contemporary in a series of latest 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.
Iyer asks whether hate crimes must be regarded as domestic terrorism and explores the role of the state in perpetuating racism through detentions, national registration programs, police profiling, and constant surveillance. Reframing the discussion of race in The usa, 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 The usa.