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Subject(s)

• Muslims—United States—Social conditions [Browse]
• Arab Americans—Social conditions [Browse]
• Muslims—Europe—Social conditions [Browse]
• Arabs—Europe—Social conditions [Browse]
• Islamophobia—United States [Browse]
• Islamophobia—Europe [Browse]
• Rhetoric—Political aspects—Western countries [Browse]
• Ideology—Political aspects—Western countries [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]
• Europe—Race relations [Browse]

Summary note

• Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims examines the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiments in the West following the end of the Cold War through George W. Bush's War on Terror to the Age of Obama. Using "Operation Desert Storm" as a watershed moment, Stephen Sheehi examines the increased mainstreaming of Muslim-baiting rhetoric and explicitly racist legislation, police surveillance, witch-trials and discriminatory policies towards Muslims in North America and abroad.
• "Sheehi's analysis of Islamophobia as an ideological formation brings a much needed dose of fresh air and analytical clarity ... A worthy update of Said's seminal discussion of Orientalism and one that leaves few players in the contemporary foreign policy establishment, in particular so-called liberals, unscathed." Mark Levine, Author of why they Don't Hate us and Heavy Metal Islam.
• "[A] brilliantly synthetic work; a gift to all who struggle to understand the anti-Muslim sentiment so pervasive in contemporary America. In a richly detailed yet accessible manner, Sheehi tackles post-Cold War American Islamophobia in all of its complexity, weaving together its liberal and neoconservative strands, and illustrating that we must interrogate it not as a problem of "prejudice" or "misunderstanding," nor as a debate about Islam itself, but as an ideological paradigm used to structure and justify U.S. policies, both domestic and international."Natsu Taylor Saito, Author of Meeting The Enemy: American Exceptionalism and International Law --Book Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The elite foreign policy networks : how Islamophobia is not just prejudice
• Journalists, rogue academics, and native informants : the siege of the Arab mind
• Native informants : women and the moral pretext for Western domination
• Teaching and activism in the teeth of power
• Living in a state of fear
• Islamophobia in the age of Obama
• The parallax of American power : keeping the United States relevant.

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ISBN

• 9780932863676
• 0932863671

LCCN

^^2010041881

OCLC

449891976

RCP

H - S

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