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The 9/11 Generation : Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror /

Since the attacks of 9/11, the banner of national security has led to intense monitoring of the politics of Muslim and Arab Americans. Young people from these communities have come of age in a time when the question of political engagement is both urgent and fraught. In The 9/11 Generation, Sunaina...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maira, Sunaina, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The 9/11 generation in Silicon Valley
  • The new civil rights movement: cross-racial alliances and interfaith activism
  • Human rights, uncivil activism, and Palestinianization
  • More delicate than a flower, yet harder than a rock: human rights and humanitarianism in Af-Pak
  • Coming of age under surveillance: surveillance effects and the post-9/11 culture wars
  • Democracy and its others.