5 best-selling anthropology books like Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora by Junaid Rana

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Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

By: Junaid Rana

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constru…

If you liked the anthropology plot in Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora by Junaid Rana , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

Similar categories in None's Orientalism book and Junaid Rana's Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

  • race
  • anthropology
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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2. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"

By: Judith Butler

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gend… read more

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3. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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4. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more

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5. Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn

By: Ayala Fader

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Mitzvah Girlsis the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing a… read more

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  • religion
  • anthropology

6. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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7. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception

By: Michel Foucault , None

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In the eighteenth century, medi… read more

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8. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

By: None

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more

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9. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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10. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

By: Audra Simpson

4.36

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Mohawk Interruptus is a bold challenge to dominant thinking in the fields of Native studies and ant… read more

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  • race
  • anthropology
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11. Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

By: Junaid Rana

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constru… read more

Similar categories in Junaid Rana's Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora book and Junaid Rana's Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

  • religion
  • islam
  • race
  • anthropology
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12. Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety

By: E. Summerson Carr

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Gaming the language of addiction treatment Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritua… read more

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  • anthropology

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4.10

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