The book was purchased through the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Contents:
Introduction: America's move from identity to identification -- What is brown? Theorizing race in everyday life -- Un-American: surviving through patriotic performances -- Expulsion and what is not: defining worthiness of American citizenship -- Blackness in brown times: the medicalization of racism -- Conclusion: wielding identity to organize warfare
Summary:
What is "brown" in--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 "brown" is 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