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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion about the last twenty years of the War on Terror 
 and the second and fully revised edition of author Deepa Kumar's book, 
 "Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire."\n\nDate and time: Fri, September 
 10, 2021 @ 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM PDT\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/twenty-years-after-911-islamophobia-and-the-politics-of-empire-tickets-166803530851\n\n\nIn 
 Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, leading scholar Deepa Kumar traces 
 the history of Islamophobia from the 16th century to the “War on 
 Terror.” In the twenty years since 9/11, she writes, Islamophobia has 
 functioned in the United States both as a set of coercive policies and as a 
 body of ideas that take various forms: liberal, conservative, and 
 rightwing.\n\nThis particular form of bigotry continues to have horrific 
 consequences not only for people in Muslim-majority countries who become 
 the targets of an endless War on Terror, but for Muslims and those who 
 “look Muslim” in the West as well. Importantly, Kumar contends that 
 Islamophobia is not simply religious intolerance or the reaction of an 
 empire in crisis; it must be recognized instead as racism—the kind that 
 manifests in mass surveillance, arbitrary arrests, and deportation, much 
 like other forms of centuries-old systemic racism. And this anti-Muslim 
 racism in turn sustains empire.\n\nKumar will be joined by Noura Erakat, 
 Naomi Klein, Jasbir Puar, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a discussion of 
 all the ways these racist ideas have been stoked since 9/11, and what we 
 can do to oppose 
 them.\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSpeakers:\n\nNoura 
 Erakat\n\nNoura Erakat is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of 
 Africana Studies at Rutgers University, and non-resident fellow of the 
 Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School. Noura is the author 
 of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University 
 Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal 
 for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign 
 Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and editorial board member 
 of the Journal of Palestine Studies. She has served as Legal Counsel for a 
 Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal 
 Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and 
 Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the 
 Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including 
 "Gaza In Context" and "Black Palestinian Solidarity." She has appeared on 
 CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NPR, among others.\n\n\nNaomi Klein\n\nNaomi 
 Klein is the bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine, This Changes 
 Everything, No Is Not Enough, and the young adult book How to Change 
 Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each 
 Other. She is Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, a Puffin Writing 
 Fellow at Type Media Center and Professor of Climate Justice at the 
 University of British Columbia.\n\n\nDeepa Kumar\n\nDeepa Kumar is an 
 award-winning scholar and social justice activist. She is Professor of 
 Media Studies at Rutgers University. Her critically acclaimed book 
 Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire (2012) has been translated into 
 five languages. The second and fully revised edition, published in 2021, 
 marks twenty years of the War on Terror. Dr. Kumar has authored more than 
 80 books, journal articles, book chapters, and articles in independent and 
 mainstream media. She has shared her expertise in numerous media outlets 
 such as the BBC, The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, the Danish Broadcast 
 Corporation, TeleSur and other national and international news media 
 outlets.\n\n\nJasbir K. Puar\n\nJasbir K. Puar is Professor of Women’s 
 and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of the 
 award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability 
 (2017); and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), 
 which has been translated into Spanish and French, with Greek and 
 Portuguese translations forthcoming, and re-issued as an expanded version 
 for its 10th anniversary (2017). Her scholarly and mainstream writings have 
 been translated into more than 15 languages. She is on the advisory board 
 of numerous organizations, including USACBI and Disability Under Siege, a 
 project focusing on disability in conflict zones. In 2019 she received the 
 Kessler Award, a lifetime achievement award from the Center for Gay and 
 Lesbian Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY for scholars and activists whose work has 
 significantly impacted queer research and organizing.\n\n\nKeeanga-Yamahtta 
 Taylor\n\nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, 
 social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. ​She is 
 author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry 
 Undermined Black Homeownership, which was a semifinalist for the 2019 
 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 
 2020. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the 
 Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT 
 nonfiction in 2018. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, and a 
 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/09/06/18844731.php
SUMMARY:Twenty Years After 9/11: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire
LOCATION:Online event (FREE)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/09/06/18844731.php
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