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Title:
Muslims and American popular culture / Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards, editors.
Author:
Omidvar, Iraj, editor.

Richards, Anne R., 1961- editor.
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2014]
Call Number:
E184.M88 M84 2014 V.1
ISBN:
9780313379628
Physical Description:
2 volumes ; 25 cm
Contents:
Vol. 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 --

Vol. 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. 3. 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 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 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 -- 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.
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