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Arab and Muslim Stereotyping in American Popular Culture (Occasional Papers Series)

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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.

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