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Arabs and Muslims in the Media - Race and Representation after 9/11 (Paperback)
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Arabs and Muslims in the Media - Race and Representation after 9/11 (Paperback)
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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 West Wing, The Practice, 24, Threat Matrix, The
Agency, Navy NCIS, 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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