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<\/a><\/p>\nAuthor and nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer, in conversation with Brooklyn based Afghan American poet Zohra Saed, will discuss her book We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future.<\/p>\n
Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9\/11. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade and a half. In We Too Sing America, Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flash points, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Iyer asks whether hate crimes should be considered domestic terrorism and explores the role of the state in perpetuating racism through detentions, national registration programs, police profiling, and constant surveillance. She looks at topics including Islamophobia in the Bible Belt; the \u201cBermuda Triangle\u201d of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria; and the energy of new reform movements, including those of \u201cundocumented and unafraid\u201d youth and Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n