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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Exceptional Citizens? -- 1. Katrina, American Exceptionalism, and the Security State -- 2. American Humanitarian Citizenship -- 3. Muslims, Missionaries, and Humanitarians -- 4. "Security Moms" and "Security Feminists" -- 5. Digital Natives -- CODA. The "Shooter" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

A study of South Asian Americans which views both their identity & that of America as constructed transnationally between the U.S. & India.

AbstractThis article examines the memoirs of Indian Civil Service officers as they continued to work in what became the Indian Administrative Service after independence. Rather than being understood solely as historical archives, these texts constitute a genre that can be called the 'bureaucratic memoir' which reveals masculinities that are both colonial and post-colonial. These memoirs, and their publication decades after independence reveal attempts by elites to preserve the power of the bureaucracy into subsequent decades. The texts hope to disavow but instead also reveal the patriarchal intimacies of these elites, even as these were challenged by charges of corruption and failure which emerged almost from the first moments of independence.

Argues that the recent calls for articulating women's rights as human rights can be successful only by misrecognition of the geopolitical context of human rights internationalism & the nationalisms that are sustained by it. It is only on the level of universalized constructions of "women" as a category & the generalized invocations of oppression by "global feminism's" "American" practitioners that such discourses of rights become powerful; thus, policy & action require addressing localized & transnational specificities that created gendered inequalities. Even in national contexts such as in India, generalized invocations of women's human rights have not been useful since hegemonic forms of religion & culture have also been oppressive to women in minority communities. Concepts of economic & social justice rather than rights may work better in such cases. 38 References. Adapted from the source document.