Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment (eBook)

Picturing the Enemy

Peter Gottschalk, Gabriel Greenberg (Autoren)

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2018
1 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
979-8-216-24071-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In the minds of many Americans, Islam is synonymous with the Middle East, Muslim men with violence, and Muslim women with oppression. A clash of civilizations appears to be increasingly manifest and the war on terror seems a struggle against Islam. These are all symptoms of Islamophobia. Meanwhile, the current surge in nativist bias reveals the racism of anti-Muslim sentiment. This book explores these anxieties through political cartoons and film--media with immediate and important impact. After providing a background on Islamic traditions and their history with America, it graphically shows how political cartoons and films reveal Americans' casual demeaning and demonizing of Muslims and Islam--a phenomenon common among both liberals and conservatives. Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment offers both fascinating insights into our culture's ways of "e;picturing the enemy"e; as Muslim, and ways of moving beyond antagonism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 979-8-216-24071-6 / 9798216240716