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Arabs and Muslims in the Media : Race and Representation after 9/11 / Evelyn Alsultany.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Cultural Communication ; 34Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780814729175
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.6/970973 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.8.A7 A58 2012eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Challenging the Terrorist Stereotype -- 2. Mourning the Suspension of Arab American Civil Rights -- 3. Evoking Sympathy for the Muslim Woman -- 4. Regulating Sympathy for the Muslim Man -- 5. Selling Muslim American Identity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: 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 Media examines 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 an Arab or Muslim as a terrorist, then the storyline also includes a “positive” representation of an Arab, Muslim, Arab American, or Muslim American to offset the potential stereotype. Analyzing how TV dramas such as The Practice, 24, Law and Order, NYPD Blue, and Sleeper Cell, news-reporting, and non-profit advertising have represented Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans, and Muslim Americans during the War on Terror, this book demonstrates how more diverse representations do not in themselves solve the problem of racial stereotyping and how even seemingly positive images can produce meanings that can justify exclusion and inequality.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Challenging the Terrorist Stereotype -- 2. Mourning the Suspension of Arab American Civil Rights -- 3. Evoking Sympathy for the Muslim Woman -- 4. Regulating Sympathy for the Muslim Man -- 5. Selling Muslim American Identity -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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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 Media examines 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 an Arab or Muslim as a terrorist, then the storyline also includes a “positive” representation of an Arab, Muslim, Arab American, or Muslim American to offset the potential stereotype. Analyzing how TV dramas such as The Practice, 24, Law and Order, NYPD Blue, and Sleeper Cell, news-reporting, and non-profit advertising have represented Arabs, Muslims, Arab Americans, and Muslim Americans during the War on Terror, this book demonstrates how more diverse representations do not in themselves solve the problem of racial stereotyping and how even seemingly positive images can produce meanings that can justify exclusion and inequality.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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