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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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 US media. This book examines this paradox and investigates the increase of sympathetic images of the enemy during the War on Terror.

Product details

• Authors: Evelyn Alsultany
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2012
• EAN: 9780814707319
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-0731-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Critical Cultural Communication
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science