Prisms of Prejudice

Mediating the Middle East from the United States
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-37702-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 140 mm, Gewicht: 224 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkins, Karin Gwinn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Karin Gwinn Wilkins is Dean of the School of Communication at the University of Miami, Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), and serves on the Advisory Board with the Arab-US Association for Communication Education (AUSACE).