We Too Sing America ─ South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future

With presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States, surveillance against mosques, and a database for all Muslims living in the country, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria has once again taken center stage—to a degree little seen or discussed since the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11.

In her ?fascinating” (Kal Penn) book, We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer shows that this is the latest in a series of 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. In a ?necessary, important, and passionate” (Wajahat Ali) book that reframes the discussion of race in America, a brilliant young activist ?reaches into the complexities of the many cultures that make up South Asia” (Publishers Weekly) and provides ideas from the front lines of post-9/11 America.

A leading racial justice activist, Deepa Iyer served for a decade as the executive director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), focusing on community building in post-9/11 America. She teaches in the Asian American studies program at the University of Maryland.