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Begins an important inquiry into what America has become. A must read. -Choice Sunaina Marr Maira's The 9/11 Generation is predictably excellent and essential-a book that leads us through the impact of the Global War on Terror on Afghan American, Arab American and South Asian American youth. This is an ethnography with teeth-gripping and urgent. -Vijay Prashad,author of Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today Maira's vivid ethnography The 9/11 Generation introduces the political work forged by Muslim and Arab American youth. With their own brand of political organizing, these young people contest the uncomplicated way the categories `Muslim' and `youth' are framed as dangerous in the post-9/11 era. Through their committed activism that bridges race and faith, a lesson that draws on the civil rights struggle of the last century, they are engaging in a critique of empire and, ultimately, actively finding ways to change the world. -Junaid Rana,author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

Sunaina Marr Maira's The 9/11 Generation is predictably excellent and essential-a book that leads us through the impact of the Global War on Terror on Afghan American, Arab American and South Asian American youth. This is an ethnography with teeth-gripping and urgent. -Vijay Prashad,author of Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today Maira's vivid ethnography The 9/11 Generation introduces the political work forged by Muslim and Arab American youth. With their own brand of political organizing, these young people contest the uncomplicated way the categories `Muslim' and `youth' are framed as dangerous in the post-9/11 era. Through their committed activism that bridges race and faith, a lesson that draws on the civil rights struggle of the last century, they are engaging in a critique of empire and, ultimately, actively finding ways to change the world. -Junaid Rana,author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

Maira's vivid ethnography The 9/11 Generation introduces the political work forged by Muslim and Arab American youth. With their own brand of political organizing, these young people contest the uncomplicated way the categories 'Muslim' and 'youth' are framed as dangerous in the post-9/11 era. Through their committed activism that bridges race and faith, a lesson that draws on the civil rights struggle of the last century, they are engaging in a critique of empire and, ultimately, actively finding ways to change the world. -Junaid Rana,author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora Sunaina Marr Maira's The 9/11 Generation is predictably excellent and essential-a book that leads us through the impact of the Global War on Terror on Afghan American, Arab American and South Asian American youth. This is an ethnography with teeth-gripping and urgent. -Vijay Prashad,author of Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today

Begins an important inquiry into what America has become. A must read. * Choice * SunainaMarr MairasThe 9/11 Generationis predictably excellent and essentiala book that leads us through the impact of the Global War on Terror on Afghan American, Arab American and South Asian American youth. This is an ethnography with teethgripping and urgent. -- Vijay Prashad,author of Uncle Swami: South Asians in America Today Mairas vivid ethnographyThe 9/11 Generationintroduces the political work forged by Muslim and Arab American youth. With their own brand of political organizing, these young people contest the uncomplicated way the categories & Muslim and & youth are framed as dangerous in the post-9/11 era. Through their committed activism that bridges race and faith, a lesson that draws on the civil rights struggle of the last century, they are engaging in a critique of empire and, ultimately, actively finding ways to change the world. -- Junaid Rana,author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

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Sunaina Marr Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City (2002), Jil [Generation] Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement (2013), and Missing: Youth, Empire, and Citizenship After 9/11 (2009). She co-edited The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent (2014), Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, and the Global (2004), and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, which won the American Book Award in 1997.

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