Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Davis and a founding organizer of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI). She co-edited The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. Maira is author of Jil [Generation] Oslo: Palestinian Hip Hop, Youth Culture and the Youth Movement and The 9/11 Generation: Youth, Rights, and Solidarity in the War on Terror, among other works.
The digital material presented here is meant to supplement the article “Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine: Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent” from the current issue of Social Text (30.3, Fall 2012). An abstract for the article can be read below.
