Citizenship and Identity
Assuming certain immigrants come from somewhere else, belong somewhere else?
What is extraterritiorialization?
What role did the law play in constructing the "terrorist" as a racialized figure, according to Volpp?
Law created policies targeting specific nationalities.
What is racial profiling?
This term describes the practice of targeting people based on perceived race, ethnicity, or religion, especially after 9/11.
The type of citizenship through assumptions on identity.
Interpellation
Leads as an example and justifies the acceptability of racial profiling
What is the U.S. government?
What is The Citizen and the Terrorist?
This article was written by Leti Volpp in 2002 after 9/11.
If a similar crisis happened today, what groups might be "identified as threats and disidentified as citizens"? What patterns from Volpp's analysis might repeat?
Any group racialized as the enemy.
Which president characterized the war against terrorism as a battle for "civilization"?
President George Bush
The idea that immigrants need to be saved
What is White Man's Burden?
What is citizenship vs. identity?
This is the article’s main tension: the difference between being legally American and being seen as a “true American.”
If a similar crisis happened today, what groups might be "identified as threats and disidentified as citizens"? What patterns from Volpp's analysis might repeat?
Any group racialized as the enemy.
American Orientalism references North Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and this country collectively as the "East"?
Turkey