While the level of anti-Muslim sentiment increased precipitously in the months after 9/11,it has not subsided in the 14 years sinceMost of the undergraduates in my courses on Asian- and South Asian American communities, were in kindergarten when the attacks of 11 September 2001 occurred, or so they have lived in the reality of post-9/11 America for most of their lives.[br]But their ability to critically analyze our government’s policies and practices in the post-9/11 environment is limited,because the narrative approximately the day and its aftermath – lives lost; War on Terror triggered – excludes the stories of South Asian, Arab, and Muslim and Sikh communities in America and their ongoing experiences with loathe violence,discrimination, government surveillance and profiling.
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Source: theguardian.com