KARAM’S THE 9-11 BACKLASH -- THE MOST IMPORTANT NON-FICTION REFERENCE ACQUISITION FOR LIBRARIES AND BOOK CLUBS 2012 – 2013

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Karam, Nicoletta. (2012) The 9/11 Backlash: A Decade of U.S. Hate Crimes Targeting the Innocent, Beatitude Press, Berkeley, CA, 429 pp.

The targeting of “anyone who looked ‘different;’” often perpetrated, denied and minimized by American police, government officials and agents and the media was fueled by fear, ignorance and hatred. It has caused huge damage to individuals, the nation, our own and the global faith in our American Experiment in self-government coming out of 1776 and our heroism during World War II. What wasn’t heroic was our ethnic cleansing of Native Americans as well as harassment of British sympathizers and the confiscation of property and internment of Japanese Americans during these earlier wars and afterwards. We seem not to have learned from the deep injustices of these mistakes.
Karam’s extremely well-documented history of the victimization of thousands of innocents in the past decade runs nearly 250 pages, followed by an eye-opening section of 35 pages of “Why Backlash Hate Crimes are Undercounted,” and 50 hopeful and helpful pages of “75 steps to Curb Backlash Bigotry.”
Swarthmore College Honors grad, New York Times correspondent and Brandeis PhD in History Nicoletta Karam offers us both a scholarly examination and readable chronicle of this period in The 9/11 Backlash: A Decade of U.S. Hate Crimes Targeting the Innocent. Let’s improve the next decade with her well-supported and usable documentation and suggestions in hand on the library and community level.

World Cat listing: (8 December, 2012) http://www.worldcat.org/title/911-backlash-a-decade-of-us-hate-crimes-targeting-the-innocent/oclc/812508959&referer=brief_results (2012)

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