“Field Notes on the 9/11 Moment: Transformations in Community and Country”
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Guest Editor Deepak Iyer, Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), and the editorial staff of Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts invite submissions for the first third issue of its fourth volume, entitled “Field Notes on the 9/11 Moment: Transformations in Community and Country .” Race/Ethnicity uses a classic piece as a point of departure for treatments of critical issues within the field of race and ethnic studies. While the classic piece establishes the thematic parameters of each issue, authors are under no obligation to actively engage the arguments posed by that work.
The ten-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on American soil encourages us to consider how the events of that day have shaped how we address race, religion and national origin in the policy and public realm. The 9/11 moment has shaped American domestic and foreign policy, as well as the transformation of individuals and communities both in the United States and abroad. In many communities, Arab Americans, South Asians, Muslims, and Sikhs endured backlash, targeted law enforcement, and various forms of “racial profiling” at the hands of their neighbors and the U.S. government in the name of national security. Nor were the repercussions of 9-11 felt only within the United States. We especially welcome analysis, critiques, reflections, and documentation by activists, community-based organizations, and others who responded to the crisis that enveloped the South Asian, Muslim, Sikh, and Arab American communities in the wake of the terrorist attacks
Topics of inquiry can include but are not limited to:
• What tools and strategies are used by community activists to sustain and build community in the face of crisis?
• What impacts does being targeted as “suspect” by the United States government have on an individual? A family? A community?
• What are some of the success stories surrounding the identification and prosecution of hate crimes against Arab Americans, South Asians, Muslims, and Sikhs?
• What lasting impacts, if any, have the events of 9-11 and their aftermath had on relationships between racial and ethnic minority communities in the United States or abroad?
• What lasting impacts, if any, have 9-11 and the subsequent decade-long, global War on Terror had on the political consciousness of Arab American, South Asian, Muslim and/or Sikh communities inside or outside the United States?