"How is national belonging experienced by South Asian teenagers in post-9/11 America? In a deeply thoughtful and compassionate ethnography, Sunaina Marr Maira explores this question, providing one of the most compelling analyses of citizenship in contemporary America. She introduces us to young people who worry about deportation, racism, and the challenges of schooling in another language, but who also possess an acute analysis of imperialism and are capable of forging a transnational community united as much by Bollywood as by their sudden elevation to Public Enemy Number 1. Maira's stunning achievement is to give vivid content to state power, providing an up close and personal look at how it is lived and resisted by those whom we relentless evict from political community."--Sherene H. Razack, author of "Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics"

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after 9/11 1
1. Imperial Feelings: U.S. Empire and the War on Terror 37
2. Cultural Citizenship 76
3. Transnational Citizenship: Flexibility and Control 95
4. Economies of Citizenship: Work, Play, and Polyculturalism 128
5. Dissenting Citizenship: Orientalisms, Feminisms, and Dissenting Feelings 190
6. Missing: Fear, Complicity, and Solidarity 258
Appendix. A Note on Methods 291
Notes 293
Bibliography 305
Index 329