Alia Malek Patriot Acts (Paperback) Voice of Witness

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Patriot ActsCondition: NewEAN: 9781642595352ISBN: 9781642595352Publisher: Haymarket BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/02/2021Item Height: 139mmItem Length: 209mmContributor: Karen Korematsu (Foreword by), Alia Malek (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Narratives of Post-9/11 InjusticeDescription: In today’s political climate, where threats of mass deportations and a Muslim registry are making the headlines, the issues of civil rights, identity, and belonging explored inside Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice are perhaps more urgent than ever before. A groundbreaking collection of oral histories, Patriot Acts tells the stories of people who were needlessly swept up in the War on Terror. In their own words, narrators recount personal experiences of the post-9/11 backlash that have deeply altered their lives and communities. The eighth book in the Voice of Witness series, Patriot Acts illuminates these experiences in a compelling collection of eighteen oral histories from men and women who have found themselves subject to a wide range of human and civil rights abuses—from rendition and torture to workplace discrimination, bullying, FBI surveillance, and harassment. NARRATORS INCLUDE: ADAMA, a sixteen-year-old Muslim American who was abruptly seized from her home by the FBI on suspicion of being a suicide bomber. Even after her release from detention, she was forced to wear a tracking bracelet for the next three years. TALAT, the mother of 9/11 first responder Salman Hamdani, who went missing after the attacks. As Talat and her husband searched desperately for their son, they were hounded by the media, who portrayed Salman as a possible terrorist in hiding. RANA, a Sikh man whose brother Balbir was gunned down outside the gas station where he worked. Balbir’s death was the first reported hate murder after 9/11.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Voice of WitnessGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesAuthor: Alia MalekRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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