Specific incidents

 

Vincent Chin (June 1982)

Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Gurdwara shooting (August 5, 2012)

  • Afridi, Mehnaz M. “The Gurdwara Sikh Killings: Domestic or Global Taxonomy of Terrorism?” Sikh Formations 9, no. 2 (2013): 227–33.
  • Ahluwalia, Muninder K., Anna Flores Locke, and Steven Hylton. “Sikhism and Positive Psychology.” In Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures. Edited by Chu Kim-Prieto, 125–36. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014.
  • Bayoumi, Moustafa. “10. The Oak Creek Massacre.” In This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror. New York: New York University Pres, 2015.
  • Bhogal, Balbinder Singh. “Oak Creek Killings: The Denial of a Culture of Oppression.” Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics 51, no. 3 (2012): 335–39.
  • Chandrashekar, Santhosh. “Engendering Threat in the Guise of Protection: Orientalism and Sikh Vulnerability.” Journal of Multicultural Discourses 12, no. 4 (2017): 366–81.
  • Grewal, Inderpal. “Racial Sovereignty and ‘Shooter’ Violence: Oak Creek Massacre, Normative Citizenship and the State.” Sikh Formations 9, no. 2 (2013): 187–97.
  • Grewal, Inderpal. Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
  • Iyer, Deepa. “1. ‘Not Our American Dream’: The Oak Creek Massacre and Hate Violence.” We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. New York: New Press, 2017.
  • Jakobsh, Doris R. “Tragic Violence, Hate Crimes and Grieving Within Sacred Geographies of Faith: Sikhs and the Oak Creek Gurdwara Shootings, 2012,” Journal of Religion and Culture 27, no. 1-2 (2017): 103-31.
  • Kaur, Harleen. “Making Citizenship, Becoming Citizens: How Sikh Punjabis Shaped the Exclusionary Politics of Belonging.” Amerasia Journal 46, no. 1 (2020): 107–22.
  • Lum, Grande. “The Community Relations Service’s Work in Preventing and Responding to Unfounded Racially and Religiously Motivated Violence after 9/11.” Texas A&M Journal of Property Law 5, no. 2 (2019): 139–56.
  • Luthra, Sangeeta Kaur. “Remembering Guru Nanak: Articulations of Faith and Ethics by Sikh Activists in Post 9/11 America.” Religions 12, no. 113 (2021): 1-14.
  • Luthra, Sangeeta. “Sikh American Millennials at Work: Institution Building, Activism, and a Renaissance of Cultural Expression.” Sikh Formations 14, no. 3–4 (2018): 280–99.
  • Mandair, Arvind-Pal S. “Ideologies of the Christian-Secular Continuum: Reflections on the Oak Creek Tragedy.” Sikh Formations 9, no. 2 (2013): 199–208.
  • Manjeet Birk, Hartej Gill, and Kal Heer. “De-Islamizing Sikhaphobia: Deconstructing Structural Racism in Wisconsin Gurdwara Shooting 10/12.” Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 10, no. 2 (2015): 97–106.
  • Mirpuri, Anoop. “Racial Violence, Mass Shootings, and the U.S. Neoliberal State.” Critical Ethnic Studies 2, no. 1 (2016): 73–107.
  • O’Brien, Michelle. “Racial Enfleshment and Transpacific Modalities of Relation.” Comparatist 42, no. 1 (2018): 115–34.
  • Rashid, Hussein. “We Are All Vincent Navroze Balbir: The Indistinguishable Horde, Meaninglessness of (Others’) Life, and Crafting America.” Sikh Formations 9, no. 2 (2013): 243–48.
  • Ratti, Manav. “Intersectionality, Sikhism, and Black Feminist Legal Theory: Reconceptualizing Sikh Precarity and Minoritization in the US and India.” Sikh Formations 15, no. 3–4 (2019): 411–40.
  • Sidhu, Dawinder S. “Lessons on Terrorism and Mistaken Identity from Oak Creek, with a Coda on the Boston Marathon Bombings.” Columbia Law Review Sidebar 113 (2013): 76–87.
  • Singh, Balbir K. “On the Limits of Charhdi Kala: Oak Creek and Sikh Philosophy in an Age of Terror.” Sikh Formations 9, no. 2 (2013): 253–58.
  • Singh, Jaideep. “Memory, Invisibility, and the Oak Creek Gurdwara Massacre.” Sikh Formations 9, no. 2 (2013): 215–25.
  • Singh, Jasjit. “Racialisation, ‘Religious Violence’ and Radicalisation: The Persistence of Narratives of ‘Sikh Extremism.’” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46, no. 15 (2020): 3136–56.

Special issue, Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012)

  • Mandair, Arvind-Pal S., and Rita Verma. “Introduction: Vulnerable Minorities 1: A Special Section Devoted to Reflections on the Oak Creek Tragedy.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 273–74.
  • Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley. “Gun Cultures, Majority Nationalism, and the Prominence of Fear: Reflections on Anti-Sikh Hate Crimes.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (December 2012): 275–79.
  • Thobani, Sunera. “Racial Violence and the Politics of National Belonging: The Wisconsin Shootings, Islamophobia and the War on Terrorized Bodies.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 281-86.
  • Hundle, Anneeth Kaur. “After Wisconsin: Registers of Sikh Precarity in the Alien-Nation.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 287–91.
  • Sian, Katy Pal. “Gurdwaras, Guns and Grudges in ‘Post-Racial’ America.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 293–97.
  • Mahalingam, Ramaswami. “Misidentification, Misembodiment and the Paradox of Being a Model Minority.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 299–304.
  • Burlein, Ann. “Not-Knowing Is Most Intimate.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 305–8.
  • Ahuja, Neel. “Unmodeling Minorities: The Sikh Temple Massacre and the Question of Security.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 309–12.
  • Grewal, Harjeet. “Secular Sikhism, Religion and the Question of American Values: The Morning of Forgiveness in a Quest to Move Forward.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 313–17.
  • Jaitla, Punnu. “Thoughts on the Creation of ‘Enemies Within.’” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 319–22.
  • Chauhan, Sean. “Wisconsin Gurdwara Shooting: Seeking Some Answers.” Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 323–26.
  • Kang, H. Bindy K. “Colonization Is Not a Ghost: Colonial Infused Racism Is Alive and Well.”  Sikh Formations 8, no. 3 (2012): 327–31.

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