Authors

Sunaina Maira

 

Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies and the author of several books on Muslim, Arab, and South Asian youth culture and activism, including  Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City; Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11Jil Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Youth Movement and The 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror. She co-edited The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, which won the American Book Award in 1997, and Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, and the Global.


She was one of the founding organizers of the South Asian Committee on Human Rights (SACH), that focused on post-9/11 civil and immigrant rights issues in the Boston area. She has also worked with various antiwar, civil rights, and immigrant rights groups in the San Francisco Bay Area.  

 

Maira is recently the author of Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine. She is the recipient of a Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society fellowship for 2019-2020 to do a community-engaged research project on Arab immigrants and refugees with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center in San Francisco.

ARTICLES BY Sunaina Maira