In no particular order:
George M. Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History
Ashis Nandy, Exiled at Home: Comprising At the Edge of Psychology, The Intimate Enemy and Creating a Nationality. Read The Intimate Enemy here.
Patrick Griffin, American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier
Tram Nguyen, We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11
Farina Mir, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab (South Asia Across the Disciplines). Read Kafila’s review here.
Ann Juanita Morning, The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference. Read some of Ann Morning’s work here.
Michael Omi, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s (Critical Social Thought)
John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (Critical Cultural Communication)
Daisy Rockwell, The Little Book of Terror. Read reviews here.
Pardis Mahdavi, Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai. Read Jadaliyya’s interview with her.
Andrew Gardner, City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain. Read some of Gardner’s work here.
Aman Sethi, A Free Man. Read an excerpt.
Alyssa Ayres, Speaking Like a State: Language and Nationalism in Pakistan
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