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The power of NEWS
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- Title
- The power of NEWS
- Author(s)
- AKSP10AAS258
- Issue Date
- 2010
- Keyword(s)
- Islam
- Muslims
- News
- Media
- Profit
- Spring 2010
- AAS258
- Abstract
- The question that I am researching is how the news has changed American opinion on Muslims and if they have a double standard. I will be mostly concentrating on the time period after 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. I am going to interview a few people from campus and see if they watch the news on a regular basis or have watched it on a regular basis close to 9/11 and I would ask them what their opinion about Muslims was before 9/11 and after. I would also ask if they were familiar with previous terrorists attacks and if they hated everyone from that religion. I would also be curious as to where they get their new from and if they believe that the news is bias. I will only interview students on the University of Illinois, following EUI rules and IRB protocols.
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- When did Muslims arrive in the Americas? What is the history of Muslim immigrants in the United States? This course was an introduction to the study of Muslims in the United States. In examining the multiple racial, cultural, and national groups that make-up this diverse community, students questioned what it means to be Muslim in America. The course began with the first contact between Islam and America in the “Age of Discovery” and the African slave trade to think through the roots of Islam and its role in the contemporary moment. In this moment students also examined how indigenous Americans, referred to as American Indians, are conceptualized in relation to the Muslims of Europe and simultaneously racialized. In historicizing Islam students examined the communities who first arrived as crypto-Muslims to understand the place of Latinos in American Islam. Second, students examined African American Islam in its myriad formations. These two examples were then used comparatively to understand how the historical narrative of African American and Latino Muslims is related to newer immigrant populations. In large part, students surveyed Arab American and South Asian American Muslim communities particularly in urban contexts. These later two populations grew through large immigrant waves in the 19th century and the late twentieth century, particularly after 1965. In addition to the multi-racial and comparative perspective, this course examined intra-religious (sectarian) and interfaith differences and dialogues. This material was explored through an interdisciplinary approach focusing on the scholarship mainly from anthropology, history, sociology, religious studies, and ethnic studies. For many of class discussions this course used Chicago as an ethnographic site to explore the complex make-up and history of Muslim America.
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