Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans: Criminalization and Cultural Citizenship

Cainkar, Louise; Maira, Sunaina

doi:10.17953/amer.31.3.9914804357124877

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“…Religion is argued to be one site where the second generation defines their identity with regard to the ethnic culture of their parents and their own nationality (Levitt and Jaworsky 2007;Cadge and Ecklund 2007). These general findings are complicated for second-generation Muslim Americans by national and global security policies that are enacted in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks (Cainkar and Maira 2005). Islamic values, rather than those of western nations, are thought to guide the behaviors of some Muslims in the West (Bowen 2004;Grillo 2004).…”

Section: Second-generation Muslim Americansmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a direct result of post-9/11 security policies, young adult Muslim Americans are aware of not having the privileges of white race and of being socially positioned like other Americans who are not racially white (Alimahomed 2011). Anti-terrorism policies criminalize Muslims as persons who are not just culturally different but who hold beliefs that are opposed to core American values (Cainkar and Maira 2005). Given the global power of the United States and the association between Islam and terrorism, young Muslim Americans may construct forms of citizenship that are flexible, multicultural, polycultural, and dissenting (Cadge and Ecklund 2007).…”

Section: Second-generation Muslim Americansmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Transnationalism among Second-Generation Muslim Americans: Being and Belonging in Their Transnational Social Field

Byng

2017

Social Sciences

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An increase in transnationalism, the ability of individuals and families to travel and maintain relationships across national borders, has led to questions about its impact on identity especially for the children of migrants. When combined with concerns about global and national security such as those that are associated with Muslims and Islam, then questions about the strength national identity are particularly pertinent. This analysis uses the theories of transnational social fields and intersectionality to examine the transnational experiences of second-generation Muslim Americans. It relies on qualitative interview data. The data show the intersection of their national, religious, and gender identities. It demonstrates that they experience transnational being in their parents' country of origin and belonging in the United States. Nationality, religion, and gender influence what they experience in each location. The analysis demonstrates the stability and centrality of American national identity in what second-generation Muslims experience in both locations. Moreover, their belonging in the United States rests squarely on their perceptions of themselves as Americans and their construction of their Muslim identity as an American religious identity.

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Section: Second-generation Muslim Americansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Second-generation Muslim Americansmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transnationalism among Second-Generation Muslim Americans: Being and Belonging in Their Transnational Social Field

Byng

2017

Social Sciences

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“…Specifically, Stuart Hall (1996) has provided immensely provocative and useful analyses of blackness and youth identities in an urban British context during the 1970s-'90s period. While my larger scholarship is greatly influenced by the scholarship of identity, style, and subculture of the CCCS, the specific focus of this article lends itself more to an articulation of the discourses on race, gender, and citizenship that are informed by the material conditions and discursive forces that criminalize South Asians in policy and practice (Cainkar and Maira 2005). Specifically, the reemergence of US imperial economic, political, military, and information initiatives of surveillance and control have coalesced around the anxieties of a global brown uprising-anxieties that combine xenophobic anxieties with sexual titillation (Puar and Rai 2002).…”

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Refuting “Refugee Chic”: Transnational Girl(hood)s and the Guerilla Pedagogy of M.I.A.

Weems¹

2014

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The article analyzes media accounts about and by international hip-hop artist M.I.A. to theorize the cultural production of racialized girlhood within transnational discourses on gender and sexuality. As a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, M.I.A. is positioned as an exotic outsider to dominant discourses on race and gender in popular culture, and to the emerging canon of girlhood studies. Using a transnational feminist framework, the article illustrates the complicated tensions of racialized and gendered subjectivity in the context of the globalization of media and post-9/11 identity politics. Through an analysis of M.I.A.’s representation in mainstream media, as well as her reception in the South Asian diasporic community, it demonstrates how the artist actively resists binary constructions projected on and through her body, which is constituted by “refugee chic.” Specifically, it illustrates how M.I.A. rearticulates her outsider position to challenge the boundaries of both racialized girlhood and transnational citizenship. The article argues that M.I.A.’s self-identified mode of “digital ruckus” is a form of guerilla pedagogy that provides an important space for critical sociopolitical debate in the global youthscape.

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“…More recently, Cainkar and Maira (), Maira (), and Grewal (), have enhanced the concept of cultural citizenship for Muslims in the West. Cainkar and Maira argue that Muslim American cultural citizenship refers to “the everyday experience of belonging to the nation‐state in relation to experiences of inclusion and exclusion” (Cainkar and Maira :3). This is hardly a straightforward process.…”

Section: Cultural Citizenship Counter‐narratives and Islam As Othermentioning

confidence: 99%

Thomas Jefferson Owned a Quran: Cultural Citizenship and Muslim American Representational Politics

Kazi

2014

J Anthropology North Am

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Targeting Arab/Muslim/South Asian Americans: Criminalization and Cultural Citizenship

Cited by 81 publications

References 4 publications

Transnationalism among Second-Generation Muslim Americans: Being and Belonging in Their Transnational Social Field

Transnationalism among Second-Generation Muslim Americans: Being and Belonging in Their Transnational Social Field

Refuting “Refugee Chic”: Transnational Girl(hood)s and the Guerilla Pedagogy of M.I.A.

Thomas Jefferson Owned a Quran: Cultural Citizenship and Muslim American Representational Politics

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