RADIO INTIFADA
BROUGHT TO YOU BY
THE SOUTH ASIA WEST ASIA AND NORTH AFRICA (SWANA) COLLECTIVE OF
KPFK 90.7 F.M.
PACIFICA RADIO
THURSDAY MAY 14,2009
3:00 P.M. PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
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MUSLIM MINORITIES IN AMERICA
WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIAN MINORITIES
THIS WEEK RADIO INTIFADA WILL EXPLORE MUSLIM MINORITIES IN AMERICA, WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIAN MINORITIES. IN THE FIRST HALF HOUR WE WILL LOOK AT RACISM AND THE INDISCERNIBLE MINORITIES IN THE NATION, CONSTRUCTION OF RACE, (HISTORY, PAST AND PRESENT), AND THE ERRONEOUS REPRESENTATION OF MIDDLE-EASTERN MINORITIES. IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE HOUR WE WILL LOOK AT THE SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE WITH THE FIRST MAJOR MUSLIM PLAY, WHICH DEPICTS THE LIVES OF PAKISTANI-MUSLIM AMERICANS POST 9-11. AND FINALLY, WE WILL DISCUSS THE CONSTRUCT OF THE RACIALIZAITION OF SOUTH ASIANS HISTORICALLY IN THE US AND WHAT IS TO COME AHEAD IN THE MIDST OF THE ECONOMIC DEBACLE.
SPECIAL GUESTS:
JOHN TEHRANIAN- Professor of Law at Chapman University and the author of WHITE WASHED: America's invisible Middle-Eastern Minority.
WAJAHAT ALI -A writer and attorney, whose work, The Domestic Crusaders, is the first major play about Muslim Americans. The play is set in a post-9/11 Pakistani American muslim family context and has been hailed by pulitzer prize winning author,
VIJAY PRASHAD- George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. Prashad will discuss his perspective of how South Asians in America will be confronted within the current harsh economic climate.
VIJAY PRASHAD- George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. Prashad will discuss his perspective of how South Asians in America will be confronted within the current harsh economic climate.
THIS SHOW IS HOSTED AND PRODUCED BY
LUCY DER-TAVITIAN AND SEJAL PATEL OFTHE SWANA COLLECTIVE
