This Muslim American Life : Dispatches from the War on Terror /

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"Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake 'Mustafa Bayoumi' was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bayoumi, Moustafa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bayoumi, Moustafa.
Social aspects.
Public opinion.
Muslims > Social conditions.
Muslims > Public opinion.
Muslims in popular culture.
Muslims > Civil rights.
Muslims.
Ethnic relations.
Civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Muslims in popular culture > United States.
Public opinion > United States.
Civil rights > United States.
Muslims > United States > Biography.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Social aspects > United States.
Muslims > United States > Public opinion.
Muslims > Civil rights > United States.
Muslims > United States > Social conditions.
United States.
United States > Ethnic relations.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake 'Mustafa Bayoumi' was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an 'anti-American, pro-Islam' agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured far worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get their hair cut to eavesdropping on conversations in cafes. In This Muslim American Life, Moustafa Bayoumi reveals what the War on Terror looks like from the vantage point of Muslim Americans, highlighting the profound effect this surveillance has had on how they live their lives. To be a Muslim American today often means to exist in an absurd space between exotic and dangerous, victim and villain, simply because of the assumptions people carry about you. In gripping essays, Bayoumi exposes how contemporary politics, movies, novels, media experts and more have together produced a culture of fear and suspicion that not only willfully forgets the Muslim-American past, but also threatens all of our civil liberties in the present"--Publisher's website.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781479805853

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