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"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
Full Message :
The Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies Program at Colorado College Presents the Second Event in the Annual Laura Padilla Colloquium "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. Sponsored by the Dean's Office: Faculty Visting Speakers Fund and the Political Science and History Depts.