TY  - BOOK
AU  - Omidvar,Iraj
AU  - Richards,Anne R.
TI  - Muslims and American popular culture /Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards, editors
SN  - 9780313379635
AV  - E184 .M875 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Santa Barbara, California
PB  - Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
KW  - Muslims
KW  - United States
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Muslims in popular culture
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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