Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment: Picturing the Enemy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781538107379)

In the minds of many Americans, Islam is synonymous with the Middle East, Muslim men with violence, and Muslim women with oppression. A clash of civilizations appears to be increasingly manifest and the war on terror seems a struggle against Islam. These are all symptoms of Islamophobia. Meanwhile, the current surge in nativist bias reveals the racism of anti-Muslim sentiment. This book explores these anxieties through political cartoons and film--media with immediate and important impact. After providing a background on Islamic traditions and their history with America, it graphically shows how political cartoons and films reveal Americans' casual demeaning and demonizing of Muslims and Islam--a phenomenon common among both liberals and conservatives. Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Sentiment offers both fascinating insights into our culture's ways of "picturing the enemy" as Muslim, and ways of moving beyond antagonism.

Author: Peter Gottschalk, Gabriel Greenberg
ISBN-10: 1538107376
ISBN-13: 9781538107379
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2018
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d