Arabs and Muslims in the Media Race and Representation After 9/11

Name: Arabs and Muslims in the Media Race and Representation After 9/11
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ISBN: 9780814707326

ISBN-10: 0814707327

ISBN-13: 9780814707326

Edition: 2012

Authors: Evelyn Alsultany

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After 9/11, there was an increase in both the incidence of hate crimes and government policies that targeted Arabs and Muslims and the proliferation of sympathetic portrayals of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media.Arabs and Muslims in the Mediaexamines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of “the enemy” during the War on Terror. Evelyn Alsultany explains that a new standard in racial and cultural representations emerged out of the multicultural movement of the 1990s that involves balancing a negative representation with a positive one, what she refers to as “simplified complex representations.” This has meant that if the storyline of a TV drama or film represents…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 239
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Evelyn Alsultany is Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She is co-editor of Arab and Arab American Feminisms and of Between the Middle East and the Americas . She is also guest curator of Reclaiming Identity: Dismantling Arab Stereotypes .



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Challenging the Terrorist Stereotype



Mourning the Suspension of Arab American Civil Rights



Evoking Sympathy for the Muslim Woman



Regulating Sympathy for the Muslim Man



Selling Muslim American Identity


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author