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New PDF release: Civil Rights in Wartime: The Post-9/11 Sikh Experience

By Dawinder S. Sidhu,Neha Singh Gohil

ISBN-10: 075467553X

ISBN-13: 9780754675532

ISBN-10: 1138260207

ISBN-13: 9781138260207

within the days, months, and now years following the occasions of September eleventh, 2001, discrimination opposed to the Sikh group in the US has escalated sharply, due partly to a population that frequently confuses Sikhs, forced by means of their religion to put on turbans, with the Muslim extremists liable for the devastating terrorist assaults. even if Sikhs have seeing that mobilized to unfold wisdom and condemn violence opposed to themselves and Muslims, there was a conspicuous absence of educational literature to assist students and commentators in figuring out the impact of the backlash at the Sikh neighborhood. This quantity offers a special window onto this actual minority group's event in an more and more antagonistic weather, and gives a pointy research of the criminal battles fought by way of Sikhs in post-9/11 the USA. In doing so, it provides a brand new bankruptcy to the continued nationwide tale of the problems minority teams have confronted in preserving their civil liberties in instances of war.

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