Making Citizenship, Becoming Citizens: How Sikh Punjabis Shaped the Exclusionary Politics of Belonging
2020; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 46; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00447471.2020.1772186
ISSN2642-0228
Autores Tópico(s)Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
ResumoIn the decade after 9/11, many Sikh community organizations worked to neutralize public fear around a visible Sikh identity in response to rising anti-Sikh hate crimes. With the 2012 Oak Creek gurdwara shooting, community leaders suddenly saw these efforts as futile, leading to a strategic shift from creating positive awareness around external identity markers to positioning Sikhs as morally similar. Drawing on theories of racialization through Sikh history and interviews with Sikh community leaders, I argue that Sikh organizations' projects of belonging are limited by whiteness and the desire to find safety through the U.S. nation-state's exclusionary framework for citizenship.
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