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Muslims and American popular culture /Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (2 volumes (843 pages))Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780313379635
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E184 .M875 2014
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Contents:
Entertainment and Digital Culture -- Print Culture and Identity.
Introduction: Islam in America: A look at popular culture / Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards -- Comedy and Theater -- "There's nothing funny about your people": Muslim-American humor in the post-9/11 world / Michael Malek Najjar -- The struggle for transcendence: Iraqi Muslim women in Heather Raffo's 9 parts of desire / Jennifer Douglas -- Television -- Gender roles and marriage in Muslim-American reality TV / Mary Elizabeth Boucebci -- Remapping terrorism stereotypes in Battlestar galactica / C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter -- 5 -- The big conceal: representations of the Hijab in Little mosque on the prairie / Mariam Esseghaier -- Little mosque on the prairie: religious education on the airwaves? / Brenna Clark Gray -- Film -- The race is on: Muslims and Arabs in the American imagination / Moustafa Bayoumi -- The message: from radical terror to "old but good" / Andrea L. Stanton -- Marked off: Hollywood's untold story of Arabs, Muslims, and camels / Waleed F. Mahdi -- Beyond Muezzins and Mujahideen: Middle-Eastern voices in post-9/11 Hollywood movies / Nolwenn Mingant -- Popular Fiction and Poetry -- Normalizing Islam: representations of good and bad Muslims in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite runner / Shawn Picht -- Muslim stereotypes in John Updike's Terrorist / Mohammad Shaaban Deyab -- What can a Pakistani-American novel tell us about America's "terrorist threat from within" / Bidhan Chandra Roy -- The enduring allure of Rumi and Sufism in American literature / Nilgün Anadolu-Okur -- Thoroughly Muslim mystic: rewriting Rumi in America / Chenaz B. Seelarbokus -- Sufis and converts : American-Muslim visions of Islam / Joseph Rega -- Fantasy, Comics, and Digital Culture -- The influence of Muslims and Islam in science fiction, fantasy, and comics / Rebecca Hankins and Joyce Thornton -- Frank Miller's 300, before and after 9/11 / C.W. Marshall -- Music -- Sonic bridges: the rise of Muslim-American music / Lori Zehra Goshert -- Cut from the same cloth: American and Palestinian hip hop / Yen Rodriguez -- Muslim Filipino traditions in Filipino American popular culture / Mary Talusan -- Black Muslims, Black Power, and the Nation of Islam: Joseph Rega -- The influence of Malcolm X on Islam on Black identity and naming practices in American Culture / Griselda Thomas -- Influences of Malcolm X on sports, music, and the global Muslim community / Amir Saeed -- 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 -- American heroes and Iranian villains in "Straightforward" American news reports / Iraj Omidvar -- Reading the Qur'an in college: the Chapel Hill tempest / Shelley McGinnis -- "Good Muslim/ Bad Muslim" : media coverage of the Fort Hood shooting and American Muslims in the War on Terror / Aziz Douai -- Covered: representations of Muslim women in Azizah Magazine / Emily Dolezal -- American Muslims in cyberspace / Amira Akl -- Trans/National Trends and Issues -- Shifts in Evangelical attitudes toward American Muslims after 9/11 / Walter R. Ratliff -- The new nativism and Muslim and Latino immigration / Richie Essenberg -- Latinos and Islamic conversion in the United States / Nikkeshia Wilson -- "Iranian, Go Home!" Adversity and solidarity in the Iranian Diaspora in America / Sandra Bird -- Who are the Iranians anyway? The enduring problems of visual representation / Iraj Omidvar -- American Muslims and the struggle for agency and representation / Aajay Murphy -- American Muslims and the use of cultural diplomacy / Hafsa Kanjwal -- Mosques and Islamic-Influenced Architecture -- Fantasy, faith, and fraternity: American architecture of Moorish inspiration / Omar Khalidi -- Mosques in Minnesota / Melissa K. Aho -- Tennessee burning: Islamophobia's role in the opposition to Mosques and Muslims in post-9/11 America / Laura Runyan -- Memoirs -- American popular culture in Egypt: Transnational reflections / Katherine Dillion -- Lord, make me not oblivious: Things I want my daughters to know / Mohja Kahf.
Subject: This work accounts for the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States. It seeks to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam.
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This work accounts for the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States. It seeks to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam.

Entertainment and Digital Culture -- Print Culture and Identity.

Introduction: Islam in America: A look at popular culture / Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards -- Comedy and Theater -- "There's nothing funny about your people": Muslim-American humor in the post-9/11 world / Michael Malek Najjar -- The struggle for transcendence: Iraqi Muslim women in Heather Raffo's 9 parts of desire / Jennifer Douglas -- Television -- Gender roles and marriage in Muslim-American reality TV / Mary Elizabeth Boucebci -- Remapping terrorism stereotypes in Battlestar galactica / C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter -- 5 -- The big conceal: representations of the Hijab in Little mosque on the prairie / Mariam Esseghaier -- Little mosque on the prairie: religious education on the airwaves? / Brenna Clark Gray -- Film -- The race is on: Muslims and Arabs in the American imagination / Moustafa Bayoumi -- The message: from radical terror to "old but good" / Andrea L. Stanton -- Marked off: Hollywood's untold story of Arabs, Muslims, and camels / Waleed F. Mahdi -- Beyond Muezzins and Mujahideen: Middle-Eastern voices in post-9/11 Hollywood movies / Nolwenn Mingant -- Popular Fiction and Poetry -- Normalizing Islam: representations of good and bad Muslims in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite runner / Shawn Picht -- Muslim stereotypes in John Updike's Terrorist / Mohammad Shaaban Deyab -- What can a Pakistani-American novel tell us about America's "terrorist threat from within" / Bidhan Chandra Roy -- The enduring allure of Rumi and Sufism in American literature / Nilgün Anadolu-Okur -- Thoroughly Muslim mystic: rewriting Rumi in America / Chenaz B. Seelarbokus -- Sufis and converts : American-Muslim visions of Islam / Joseph Rega -- Fantasy, Comics, and Digital Culture -- The influence of Muslims and Islam in science fiction, fantasy, and comics / Rebecca Hankins and Joyce Thornton -- Frank Miller's 300, before and after 9/11 / C.W. Marshall -- Music -- Sonic bridges: the rise of Muslim-American music / Lori Zehra Goshert -- Cut from the same cloth: American and Palestinian hip hop / Yen Rodriguez -- Muslim Filipino traditions in Filipino American popular culture / Mary Talusan -- Black Muslims, Black Power, and the Nation of Islam: Joseph Rega -- The influence of Malcolm X on Islam on Black identity and naming practices in American Culture / Griselda Thomas -- Influences of Malcolm X on sports, music, and the global Muslim community / Amir Saeed -- 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 -- American heroes and Iranian villains in "Straightforward" American news reports / Iraj Omidvar -- Reading the Qur'an in college: the Chapel Hill tempest / Shelley McGinnis -- "Good Muslim/ Bad Muslim" : media coverage of the Fort Hood shooting and American Muslims in the War on Terror / Aziz Douai -- Covered: representations of Muslim women in Azizah Magazine / Emily Dolezal -- American Muslims in cyberspace / Amira Akl -- Trans/National Trends and Issues -- Shifts in Evangelical attitudes toward American Muslims after 9/11 / Walter R. Ratliff -- The new nativism and Muslim and Latino immigration / Richie Essenberg -- Latinos and Islamic conversion in the United States / Nikkeshia Wilson -- "Iranian, Go Home!" Adversity and solidarity in the Iranian Diaspora in America / Sandra Bird -- Who are the Iranians anyway? The enduring problems of visual representation / Iraj Omidvar -- American Muslims and the struggle for agency and representation / Aajay Murphy -- American Muslims and the use of cultural diplomacy / Hafsa Kanjwal -- Mosques and Islamic-Influenced Architecture -- Fantasy, faith, and fraternity: American architecture of Moorish inspiration / Omar Khalidi -- Mosques in Minnesota / Melissa K. Aho -- Tennessee burning: Islamophobia's role in the opposition to Mosques and Muslims in post-9/11 America / Laura Runyan -- Memoirs -- American popular culture in Egypt: Transnational reflections / Katherine Dillion -- Lord, make me not oblivious: Things I want my daughters to know / Mohja Kahf.

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