Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11

by Sunaina Maira

Book Overview

In Missing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the history of U.S. imperialism: in the years immediately following September 11, 2001. Drawing on ethnographic research in a New England high school, Maira investigates the cultural dimensions of citizenship for South Asian Muslim students and their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822344092
• ISBN13: 9780822344094
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"