It is amazing to think that in an age where information is quite literally at one's fingertips, ignorance of the diversity of the world is rampant. According to Dr. Jack Shaheen, unawareness of the lives of Arab peoples in particular becomes apparent through the study of the use of mass media in American culture. How does the American media portray the Arab countries and the Muslim faith? Furthermore, how do the American people react to such a depiction? Are there any solutions to the obstacles created? Such questions are thoroughly examined and discussed in Shaheen's booklet, "Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture."
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Jack Shaheen is Professor of Mass Communications Emeritus at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Shaheen, a Fulbright scholar and CBS News consultant on Middle East affairs, has lectured on five continents and throughout the United States. He has been a guest speaker at many universities, including Amherst, Harvard, Emory, and Oxford, and has spoken at the United Nations as well as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Included among his 300-plus publications are two books, Nuclear War Films (ed.), The TV Arab, and essays focusing on the impact of stereotypical portraits in college textbooks, academic journals, and periodicals, e.g., The Washington Post, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal.
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Amazing,
This review is from: Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture (Occasional Papers Series) (Paperback)
Well written and thought out.
I'm not even going to argue with the review below me, all one has to do is look at his "location", to realize where his misguided opinions originate.
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This review is from: Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture (Occasional Papers Series) (Paperback)
contrary to the arguemtn of this book actually americans are neither ignorant of Islam and nor is the version of the arab shown in pop culture incorrect. It is interesting that for the decades where the arab was seen as coming out of Lawrence of Arabia and he was seen as noble and honest that no one wrote a book about how distorted that view was in portraying bedouin culture as so grande when in fact it is not.
THis book goves tot he other extreme. It is true that arabs have from time to time been seen in a 'negative' light. But if one counts up all the 'bad' guy images in american culture they will find they are overhwelmingly white. The mere fact that arabs actually did cause the terrorism in america is a good bases for people to stereotype them, and culture has donee verything it can int he opposite direct to make everyone 'appreciate' and 'love' the Koran and Islam. Their are almost no negative images in popular culture of Arabs or Muslims. Rather it is in the culture of the street where such negative images sometimes get by the censors and people are allowed to talk about them. This book is simply incorrect, no data is presented and no research was done into counting just how many 'negative' images are being seen, the book relies on hearsay and a general feeling that 'negative stereotypes' must be 'combatted'. In this case their is nothing to combat. Seth J. Frantzman
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