Four days after the 9\/11 attacks, Balbir Singh Sodhi was gunned down at his Phoenix area gas station by a man named Frank Roque. To Roque, Balbir Sodhi\u2019s beard and turban \u2014 articles of his Sikh faith \u2014 falsely evoked the face of America\u2019s new enemy. Seeking retaliation for 9\/11, Roque killed Sodhi and went on to shoot at a Lebanese American man and fire multiple rounds of ammunition outside an Afghan American family\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
A Dream in Doubt<\/i> follows Rana Singh Sodhi, Balbir\u2019s brother, as he attempts to fight the hate that threatens his family and community. The Sodhis had fled ethnic violence in India to pursue their version of the American dream. But less than a year after Balbir\u2019s murder, Sukhpal Sodhi, Rana\u2019s next-eldest brother, is killed in mysterious circumstances while driving a cab in San Francisco. More ethnic assaults follow. Few receive significant coverage in the U.S. media, and a national dialogue concerning post-9\/11 hate crimes and ethnic profiling fails to materialize.<\/p>\n
Seeking justice for his brothers\u2019 murders, Rana is motivated into action. He demands that America live up to its ideals of freedom, equality, and justice for all. In A Dream in Doubt<\/i>, he challenges his fellow citizens to think deeply about individual responsibility in the face of bigotry and what it means to be a true patriot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the wake of 9\/11 and the hate crimes that followed, a Sikh American struggles to believe in the American dream amidst a climate of xenophobia and fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"topic":[1220],"class_list":["post-75","films","type-films","status-publish","hentry","topic-immigration"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n