Muslims and American popular culture /Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards, editors.
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (2 volumes (843 pages))
Includes bibliographies and index.
Entertainment and Digital Culture -- Print Culture and Identity. Introduction: Islam in America: A look at popular culture / Comedy and Theater -- "There's nothing funny about your people": Muslim-American humor in the post-9/11 world / The struggle for transcendence: Iraqi Muslim women in Heather Raffo's 9 parts of desire / Television -- Gender roles and marriage in Muslim-American reality TV / Remapping terrorism stereotypes in Battlestar galactica / 5 -- The big conceal: representations of the Hijab in Little mosque on the prairie / Little mosque on the prairie: religious education on the airwaves? / Film -- The race is on: Muslims and Arabs in the American imagination / The message: from radical terror to "old but good" / Marked off: Hollywood's untold story of Arabs, Muslims, and camels / Beyond Muezzins and Mujahideen: Middle-Eastern voices in post-9/11 Hollywood movies / Popular Fiction and Poetry -- Normalizing Islam: representations of good and bad Muslims in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite runner / Muslim stereotypes in John Updike's Terrorist / What can a Pakistani-American novel tell us about America's "terrorist threat from within" / The enduring allure of Rumi and Sufism in American literature / Thoroughly Muslim mystic: rewriting Rumi in America / Sufis and converts : American-Muslim visions of Islam / Fantasy, Comics, and Digital Culture -- The influence of Muslims and Islam in science fiction, fantasy, and comics / Frank Miller's 300, before and after 9/11 / Music -- Sonic bridges: the rise of Muslim-American music / Cut from the same cloth: American and Palestinian hip hop / Muslim Filipino traditions in Filipino American popular culture / Black Muslims, Black Power, and the Nation of Islam: The influence of Malcolm X on Islam on Black identity and naming practices in American Culture / Influences of Malcolm X on sports, music, and the global Muslim community / Journalism and Digital Culture -- A century of ignorance: the influence of British attitudes on U.S. popular perceptions of war in Afghanistan (1880s-1980s) / American heroes and Iranian villains in "Straightforward" American news reports / Reading the Qur'an in college: the Chapel Hill tempest / "Good Muslim/ Bad Muslim" : media coverage of the Fort Hood shooting and American Muslims in the War on Terror / Covered: representations of Muslim women in Azizah Magazine / American Muslims in cyberspace / Trans/National Trends and Issues -- Shifts in Evangelical attitudes toward American Muslims after 9/11 / The new nativism and Muslim and Latino immigration / Latinos and Islamic conversion in the United States / "Iranian, Go Home!" Adversity and solidarity in the Iranian Diaspora in America / Who are the Iranians anyway? The enduring problems of visual representation / American Muslims and the struggle for agency and representation / American Muslims and the use of cultural diplomacy / Mosques and Islamic-Influenced Architecture -- Fantasy, faith, and fraternity: American architecture of Moorish inspiration / Mosques in Minnesota / Tennessee burning: Islamophobia's role in the opposition to Mosques and Muslims in post-9/11 America / Memoirs -- American popular culture in Egypt: Transnational reflections / Lord, make me not oblivious: Things I want my daughters to know / Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards -- Michael Malek Najjar -- Jennifer Douglas -- Mary Elizabeth Boucebci -- C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter -- Mariam Esseghaier -- Brenna Clark Gray -- Moustafa Bayoumi -- Andrea L. Stanton -- Waleed F. Mahdi -- Nolwenn Mingant -- Shawn Picht -- Mohammad Shaaban Deyab -- Bidhan Chandra Roy -- Nilgün Anadolu-Okur -- Chenaz B. Seelarbokus -- Joseph Rega -- Rebecca Hankins and Joyce Thornton -- C.W. Marshall -- Lori Zehra Goshert -- Yen Rodriguez -- Mary Talusan -- Joseph Rega -- Griselda Thomas -- Amir Saeed -- Nathaniel A. Davis -- Iraj Omidvar -- Shelley McGinnis -- Aziz Douai -- Emily Dolezal -- Amira Akl -- Walter R. Ratliff -- Richie Essenberg -- Nikkeshia Wilson -- Sandra Bird -- Iraj Omidvar -- Aajay Murphy -- Hafsa Kanjwal -- Omar Khalidi -- Melissa K. Aho -- Laura Runyan -- Katherine Dillion -- Mohja Kahf.
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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