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Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State - Couverture rigide

Silva, Kumarini

 
9781517900021: Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1517900026 ISBN 13 : 9781517900021
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2016

Synopsis

What is brownin-and beyond-the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination of these questions to date, Kumarini Silva argues that brownis no longer conceived of solely as 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, indeed, a strategy of identification-one rooted in xenophobic, imperialistic, and racist ideologies to target those who do not neatly fit or subscribe to ideas of nationhood. Interweaving personal narratives, ethnographic research, analyses of popular events like the Miss America pageant, and films and TV shows such as the Harold and Kumar franchise and Black-ish, Silva maps junctures where the ideological, political, and mediated terrain intersect, resulting in an appetite for all things brown(especially South Asian brown) by U.S. consumers, while political and nationalist discourses and legal structures (immigration, emigration, migration, outsourcing, incarceration) conspire to control brown bodies both within and outside the United States. Silva explores this contradictory relationship between representation and reality, arguing that the representation mediates and manages the anxieties that come from contemporary global realities, in which brown spaces, like India, Pakistan, and the Middle East pose key economic, security, and political challenges to the United States. While racism is hardly new, what makes this iteration of brown new is that anyone or any group, at any time, can be branded as deviant, as a threat.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kumarini Silva is assistant professor of communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the coeditor of Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1517900026
ISBN 13 
9781517900021
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
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Personne responsable
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