Muslims and American popular culture
By: Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards, editors
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313379628; 9780313379635
Subjects: Unterhaltungskunst; Muslims; Muslims in popular culture; Intellectual life; Muslim; Islam
Description: Unfortunately, American mass media representations of Muslims--whether in news or entertainment--are typically negative and one-dimensional. As a result, Muslims are frequently viewed negatively by those with minimal knowledge of Islam in America. This accessible two-volume work will help readers to construct an accurate framework for understanding the presence and depictions of Muslims in American society. These volumes discuss a uniquely broad array of key topics in American popular culture, including jihad and jihadis; the hejab, veil, and burka; Islamophobia; Oriental despots; Arabs; Muslims in the media; and mosque burnings. Muslims and American Popular Culture offers more than 40 chapters that serve to debunk the overwhelmingly negative associations of Islam in American popular culture and illustrate the tremendous contributions of Muslims to the United States across an extended historical period.--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. Entertainment and Digital Culture; title: Introduction: Islam in America: A look at popular culture / Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards; title: pt. 1. Comedy and theater. "There's nothing funny about your people": Muslim-American humor in the post-9/11 world / Michael Malek Najjar; title: The struggle for transcendence: Iraqi Muslim women in Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire / Jennifer Douglas; title: pt. 2. Television. Gender roles and marriage in Muslim-American reality TV / Mary Elizabeth Tyler Boucebci; title: Remapping terrorism stereotypes in Battlestar Galactica / C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter; title: The big conceal: representations of Hijab in Little Mosque on the Prairie / Mariam Esseghaier; title: Little Mosque on the Prairie: religious education on the airwaves / Brenna Clarke Gray; title: pt. 3. Film. The race is on: Muslims and Arabs in the American imagination / Moustafa Bayoumi; title: The message: from radical terror to "old but good" / Andrea L. Stanton; title: Marked off: Hollywood's untold story of Arabs, Muslims, and camels / Waleed F. Mahdi; title: Beyond Muezzins and Mujahideen: Middle-Eastern voices in post-9/11 Hollywood movies / Nolwenn Mingant; title: pt. 4. Popular fiction and poetry. Normalizing Islam: representations of good and bad Muslims in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner / Shawn Picht; title: Muslim stereotypes in John Updike's Terrorist / Mohammad Shaaban Deyab; title: What can a Pakistani-American novel tell us about America's "terrorist threat from within" / Bidhan Chandra Roy; title: The enduring allure of Rumi and Sufism in American literature / Nilgun Anadolu-Okur; title: Thoroughly Muslim mystic: rewriting Rumi in America / Chenaz B. Seelarbokus; title: Sufis and converts: American Muslim visions of Islam / Joseph Rega; title: pt. 5. Fantasy, comics, and digital culture. The influence of Muslims and Islam in science fiction, fantasy, and comics / Rebecca Hankins and Joyce Thornton; title: Frank Miller's 300, before and after 9/11 / C.W. Marshall; title: pt. 6. Music. Sonic bridges: the rise of American-Muslim music / Lori Zehra Goshert; title: Cut from the same cloth: American and Palestinian hip hop / Yen Rodriguez Muslim Filipino traditions in Filipino American popular culture / Mary Talusan.; title: Vol. 2. Print Culture and Identity; title: pt. 1. Black Muslims, black power, and the Nation of Islam. "Muhammad's Land": Ideology, identity, and cultural production in the Nation of Islam / Joseph Rega; title: The influence of Malcolm X and Islam on black identity and naming practices in American culture / Griselda Thomas; title: Influences of Malcolm X on sports, music, and the global Muslim community / Amir Saeed; title: pt. 2. Journalism and digital culture. A century of ignorance: the influence of British attitudes on U.S. popular perceptions of war in Afghanistan (1880s-1980s) / Nathaniel A. Davis; title: American heroes and Iranian villains in "straightforward" American news reports / Iraj Omidvar; title: Reading the Qur'an in college: the Chapel Hill tempest / Shelley McGinnis; title: "Good Muslim/bad Muslim": media coverage of the Fort Hood shooting and American Muslims in the War on Terror / Aziz Douai; title: Covered: representations of Muslim women in Azizah Magazine / Emily Dolezal; title: American Muslims in cyberspace / Amira Akl; title: pt. 3. Trans/national trends and issues. Shifts in Evangelical attitudes toward American Muslims after 9/11 / Walter R. Ratliff; title: The new nativism and Muslim and Latino immigration / Richie Essenberg; title: Latinos and Islamic conversion in the United States / Nikkeshia Wilson; title: "Iranian, go home!" Adversity and solidarity in the Iranian diaspora in America / Sandra Bird; title: Who are Iranians anyway? The enduring problems of visual representation / Iraj Omidvar; title: American Muslims and the struggle for agency and representation / Aajay Murphy; title: American Muslims and the use of cultural diplomacy / Hafsa Kanjwal; title: pt. 4. Mosques and Islamic-influenced architecture. Fantasy, faith, and fraternity: American architecture of Moorish inspiration / Omar Khalidi; title: Mosques in Minnesota / Melissa K. Aho; title: Tennessee burning: Islamophobia's role in the opposition to mosques and Muslims in post-9/11 America / Laura Runyan; title: pt. 5. Memoirs. American popular culture in Egypt: transnational reflections / Katherine Dillion; title: Lord, make me not oblivious: things I want my daughters to know / Mohja Kahf.