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On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the DOJ released a report that revealed that hate violence toward people and property had not abated.

Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America

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Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis

I am a rapid responder but over the past few weeks as the coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, I have felt disoriented and…

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Also from the New Press, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future, by Deepa Iyer, senior fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion.

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As immigrant communities reshape Tennessee’s racial landscape, the state has become a breeding ground for anti-Muslim sentiment. From Deepa Iyer's "We Too Sing America":

http://aaww.org/islamophobia-bible-belt/

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Are you sick and tired of the xenophobia that dominates American politics? Then show up for INTRO TO ISLAMOPHOBIA & XENOPHOBIA. Deepa Iyer will talk about the post-9/11 backlash against South Asians, Arabs, Muslims, and Sikhs, and connect it to the undocumented movement and ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬. Also featuring the ACLU’s Hina Shamsi, the Arab American Association's Aber Kawas, and performance poet YaliniDream.

RESERVE A SEAT FOR THURS MAY 5th:

http://aaww.org/curation/introtoislamophobia

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AAARI-CUNY Lecture Series: We Too Sing America

From the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) at the City University of New York (CUNY):

Please join us for a talk on, We Too Sing America - Deepa Iyer in Conversation with Zohra Saed, on Friday, March 18, 2016, from 6pm to 8pm, at 25 West 43rd Street, 10th Floor, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan. This talk is free and open to the general public.

Author 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.

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.

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 "Bermuda Triangle" of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria; and the energy of new reform movements, including those of "undocumented and unafraid" youth and Black Lives Matter.

Deepa Iyer is an activist, writer, and lawyer with a strong commitment to intersectional, community-based, racial justice issues in the United States. The former Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), Deepa is currently the Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion where she provides analysis, commentary and scholarship on how to build equity and solidarity in America's changing racial landscape.

Zohra Saed is a Brooklyn based Afghan American poet. Her poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Zohra is a doctoral candidate at The City University of New York Graduate Center. As a Lecturer, she initiated the following courses at Hunter College: Arab American Literature; West Asian American Literature and Film; and Central Asian Film and Literature.

To RSVP for this talk, please visit www.aaari.info/16-03-18Iyer.htm. Please be prepared to present proper identification when entering the building lobby.

If you are unable to attend the talk, it will be live webcasted on our website, www.aaari.info, beginning 6:15PM EST, and also available the following week as streaming video and audio podcast. See you on Friday!

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How did racialized notions of criminality become so closely associated with blackness? How did the story of Asian American success and racial uplift become so widely accepted? What is the relationship between the two, and what are the implications for today's racial politics?

Tune in to this exciting conversation exploring Black and Asian-American racial formation, featuring William Jelani Cobb, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of African American Studies at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, and Ellen D. Wu, Ph.D., author of The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.

This panel also features Deepa Iyer, Senior Fellow, Center for Social Inclusion and author of the book, "We Too Sing America: South Asian, Muslim, Arab and Sikh Immigrants And Our Multiracial Future," and is moderated by Soya Jung of ChangeLab, which publishes a blog on Asian Americans and the racial justice movement at www.racefiles.com.

Seen at http://kimkrypto.tumblr.com

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New Author Deepa Iyer Talks Post-9/11 Backlash and How ISIS' Paris Attack Will Impact Brown Folks Here

In her first book, civil rights activist and attorney Deepa Iyer chronicles the experiences of U.S. Arabs, Muslims, Sikhs and South Asians after 9/11 and weighs in on how the ISIS massacre in Paris will reverberate in this country.

Deepa Iyer talks about her first book We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future and the impact of the Paris attacks on Arab, Muslim, Sikh and South Asian American communities. -AW