Muslims and American popular culture /
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2014] |
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Table of Contents:
- v. 1. Entertainment and digital culture-Introduction: Islam in America: A look at popular culture / Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards
- pt. 1. 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
- pt. 2. Television. Gender roles and marriage in Muslim-American reality TV / Mary Elizabeth Tyler Boucebci
- Remapping terrorism stereotypes in Battlestar Galactica / C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter
- The big conceal: representations of Hijab in Little Mosque on the Prairie / Mariam Esseghaier
- Little Mosque on the Prairie: religious education on the airwaves / Brenna Clarke Gray
- pt. 3. 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
- pt. 4. 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
- pt. 5. 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
- pt. 6. Music. Sonic bridges: the rise of American-Muslim 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
- v. 2. Print culture and identity-pt. 1. Black Muslims, black power, and the Nation of Islam. "Muhammad's Land": Ideology, identity, and cultural production in the Nation of Islam / Joseph Rega
- The influence of Malcolm X and 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
- pt. 2. 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
- pt. Trans/national trends and issuesj. 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 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
- pt. 4. Mosques and Islamic-influenced architecturej. 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
- pt. 5. Memoirs. American popular culture in Egypt: transnational reflections / Katherine Dillion
- Lord, make me not oblivious: things I want my daughters to know / Mohja Kahf.