In Brown Bodies and Xenophobic Bullying in US Schools: Critical Analysis and Strategies for Action by Monisha Bajaj, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher, and Karishma Desai, the content primarily focuses on the different types of bullying that “brown bodies” face in society, specifically in schools, as well as, explaining their new strategies for understanding xenophobic bullying. Brown bodies is defined in the reading as “the perception of foreignness and illegality in post 9/11 America that has marked many groups – South Asian, West Asian, North African, and various other communities of color” (Bajaj, Ghaffar-Kucher, and Desai 484). While initially reading this essay, I had a difficult time trying to comprehend how some people can be so harsh to other
