Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation After 9/11

by Amina Yaqin and Peter Morey

Book Overview

Can Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the values of Islam ever be brought into accord with the individual freedoms central to the civic identity of Western nations? Not if you believe what you see on TV. Whether the bearded fanatic, the veiled, oppressed female, or the shadowy terrorist plotting our destruction, crude stereotypes permeate public representations of Muslims in the United States and western Europe. But these "Muslims"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674048520
• ISBN13: 9780674048522
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Harvard
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"