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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 mediationserves 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 indiscriminatory 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 tocounter these prisms of prejudice through informed and engaged strategic intervention in critical communication literacy.

Table of Contents
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

Prisms of Prejudice

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 5 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9780520377028
      978-0520377028
      ISBN-10 0520377028
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      Dictionaries, Reference & Language Communication studies Media studies Politics and government

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 mediationserves 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 indiscriminatory 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 tocounter these prisms of prejudice through informed and engaged strategic intervention in critical communication literacy.

      Table of Contents
      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

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