{"product_id":"brown-threat-kumarini-silva-9781517900038","title":"Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving personal narratives, ethnographic research, analyses of popular events like the Miss America pageant, and films and TV shows such as the Harold and Kumar franchise and\u003ci\u003e Black-ish\u003c\/i\u003e, Silva maps junctures where the ideological, political, and mediated terrain intersect, resulting in an appetite for all things \"brown\" (especially South Asian brown) by U.S. consumers, while political and nationalist discourses and legal structures (immigration, emigration, migration, outsourcing, incarceration) conspire to control brown bodies both within and outside the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilva explores this contradictory relationship between representation and reality, arguing that the representation mediates and manages the anxieties that come from contemporary global realities, in which brown spaces, like India, Pakistan, and the Middle East pose key economic, security, and political challenges to the United States. While racism is hardly new, what makes this iteration of brown new is that anyone or any group, at any time, can be branded as deviant, as a threat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kumarini Silva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517900034\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517900038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Kumarini Silva","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940064854271,"sku":"9781517900038","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6d0ac02b-5f64-41f5-b28c-d039c80f97c0.jpg?v=1681445082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brown-threat-kumarini-silva-9781517900038","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}