TY - BOOK AU - Alsultany,Evelyn TI - Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 T2 - Critical Cultural Communication SN - 9780814729175 AV - PN1992.8.A7 A58 2012eb U1 - 305.6/970973 23 PY - 2012///] CY - New York, NY : PB - New York University Press, KW - Arabs on television KW - Muslims on television KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) on television KW - Television programs KW - United States KW - History KW - 21st century KW - PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Depression KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814729175.001.0001 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814729175 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814729175/original ER -