The Institute for International, Comparative and Area Studies presents Junaid Rana, associate professor, Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107.

Rana’s talk examines the complex interplay of policing, survival, and terror in a Muslim neighborhood of New York City. Drawn from his current book project that details the outcomes of over a decade of the War on Terror in the Little Pakistan of Brooklyn, ethnographic examples come from a range of chapter topics including activism, policing, health care, and legal issues that detail the unlikely possibilities in the gray areas of diasporic economies and neoliberal capitalism.

Junaid Rana is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with appointments in the Department of Anthropology, the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.

His publications have appeared in Cultural Dynamics, Souls, and the edited anthologies Pakistani Diasporas (OUP, 2009) State of White Supremacy (Stanford, 2011), Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism (Brill, 2012), Dispatches from Pakistan (Leftword, 2012; Minnesota 2014), Between the Middle East and the Americas (Michigan, 2013), and The Sun Never Sets (NYU, 2013). He is the author of the book Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke, 2011), winner of the 2013 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in the Social Sciences. He is a member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association Working Group and serves as the co-coordinator for 2012-14.

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