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Arabs and Muslims in the media : race and representation after 9/11 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Critical cultural communication.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814729175 0814729177 9780814738146 0814738141 |