Prisms of prejudice : mediating the Middle East from the United States / Karin Gwinn Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkins, Karin Gwinn, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and public opinion--United States.

Mass media and public opinion.

Prejudices in the press--United States.

Prejudices in the press.

Middle East--In mass media.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Summary:

Media do not reflect: media refract. In the United States, established and enduring prisms of prejudice about the projected "Middle East" are mediated through popular culture, broadcast news, government mission statements and official maps. This mediation serves to assert political boundaries and construct the United States as heroic against a villainous or victimized Middle East. These problematic maps and narratives are persistent over time and prevalent across genre, with clear consequences evidenced by the rise in discriminatory sentiments in the US population and experiences of harm in US Arab and Muslim communities. Exploring a wide range of media, Karin Gwinn Wilkins illuminates the shape and scope of these narratives and explores ways to counter these prisms of prejudice through informed and engaged strategic intervention in critical communication literacy.

Contents:

Cover

Prisms of Prejudice

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Prisms of Prejudice

2 Mapping the Middle East

3 Narrating the Middle East

4 Mediating the Middle East

5 Visioning from the US Prism

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520976368

0520976363

OCLC:

1255520546