Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State
By (Author) Kumarini Silva
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st January 2017
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Popular culture
Social discrimination and social justice
Social and cultural anthropology
305.800973
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 25mm
Description
Kumarini Silva argues that "brown" is no longer solely a cultural, ethnic, or political identity. Instead, after 9/11, the Patriot Act, and the wars in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, it has also become a concept and strategy of identificationone rooted in xenophobic, imperialistic, and racist ideologies to target those who do not neatly fit or subscribe to ideas of nationhood.
Reviews
"An essential text on the contemporary mediations of race in America. Kumarini Silva's analysis fills a critical gap in studies of race, arguing for the work done by the malleability of the racialized category of "South Asian brown" for the U.S. security state."Inderpal Grewal, Yale University
Author Bio
Kumarini Silva is assistant professor of communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the coeditor ofFeminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture.
