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Abstract :

March 2nd at 7:00 in Cornerstone Screening Room:

"Trump's Muslim Ban and The Construction of the Terrorist Threat from
the 1970s to the Present"

A talk by Professor Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University
Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
Cornerstone Screening Room
Free and open to the public
Book signing to follow

Full Message :

March 2nd at 7:00 in Cornerstone Screening Room:

"Trump's Muslim Ban and The Construction of the Terrorist Threat from the 1970s
to the Present"

A talk by Professor Deepa Kumar, Rutgers University
Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
Cornerstone Screening Room
Free and open to the public
Book signing to follow


Description: When President Trump issued an executive order banning people from
seven Muslim majority countries from entering the United States he justified it
by arguing that it was in the interests of national security. He suggested that
the terrorist threat was even greater than that imagined by the nation. In this
talk, Professor Deepa Kumar will trace the birth and development of the
terrorist threat and how it has been hyped to serve various political agendas.
She debunks the logic of the never-ending "war on terror" and examines how
racism has historically been useful for projects of empire.

Deepa Kumar is Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle Eastern studies
at Rutgers University. She earned her B.A. at Bangalore University, and an M.A.
and Ph.D. at  the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include Islamophobia and
the Politics of Empire and Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and
the UPS Strike