| Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment: Picturing the Enemy Contributor(s): Gottschalk, Peter (Author), Greenberg, Gabriel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1538107368 ISBN-13: 9781538107362 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $101.97 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Religion, Politics & State - Art | Art & Politics - Political Science | Civil Rights |
| Dewey: 305.697 |
| LCCN: 2018010584 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 20.9" W x 9.1" (1.40 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 "picturing the enemy" as Muslim, and ways of moving beyond antagonism. |