Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11

Index

221 Index 7th Heaven, 1, 3, 22, 71, 179n7, 179n10, 190n36, 190n2 24, 2–3, 18–19, 30, 33–36, 140, 170; Criticism of, 18–19; Examples of simplified complex representations and, 20–26; Racial casting in, 9–10; Technology in, 42–43; Torture in, 40–46; Women in, 71 Abu Ghraib, 40–44, 58, 119, 127, 170 Abu-Jamal, Mumia, 130 Ad Council, 132, 134–39, 148, 160; And other ad campaigns, 140–43 Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World, 132, 150, 159 Affect, 16, 71, 74, 128, 169; Excess of, 72, 75, 90, 94, 103; Politics of affective worthiness, 126; Regulation of, 72. See also Benevolent emotions; Compassion; Dissenting feelings; Emotional hegemony; Emotive public; Empathy; Mourning; Outlaw emotion; Outrage; Pity; Remorse; Structure of feeling; and Sympathy Afghan War, 6, 29, 39, 53, 58; Justifications for, 73, 76, 80, 82–83 Agamben, Giorgio, 53, 56 Ahmed, Leila, 79 Alhurra Television, 151–52, 159 Aliens in America, 172–73, 176 Allen, Stuart, 103 Ambiguous assimilative diversity, 134–37, 141, 161 Ambivalence, 53; In The Practice, 52–58 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, 4, 170 American Civil Liberties Union, 47–48 American Taliban. See Lindh, John Walker Amnesty International, 4, 91–92 Anti-Semitism, 9, 86, 115–20, 127 Antonius, Rachad, 53 Arab American Institute, 170 Arabs and Muslims: Artists, 170–71; “Bad,” 8, 11, 15, 28, 31–32, 72, 147; Challenging conflation of, 23, 32–33; As citizenpatriots , 142–44; Conflation of, 9–10, 29, 73, 103, 142; Diverse identities of, 23, 34, 36, 146, 176–77; “Good,” 8, 10–11, 15, 18, 28, 31–32, 72, 85–86, 141–43, 147–48, 155, 157, 160–61; Organizations, 170; As patriotic, 13–14, 21–22, 31, 60–63, 69, 102, 138, 141, 146, 148, 154, 161, 169, 177; Plight after 9/11, 16, 22–23, 48–50, 57–58, 62–72, 86, 99, 171; As traitors, 109, 127, 130; Viewers’ ideas concerning, 31–37; World population of, 9. See also Terrorism; Victims Assimilation, 14, 154, 161. See also Ambiguous assimilative diversity Baudrillard, Jean, 39 Bayoumi, Moustafa, 85 “Behind the veil,” 75–76 Benevolent emotions, 49, 57, 68–74; Postrace racism and, 50–51; Regret, 49, 65–66 Bilici, Mucahit, 119 Bin Laden, Osama, 73, 101, 104, 128, 129, 163, 165 Boltanski, Luc, 87, 91–92 Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 12 Borders, 54–55, 57, 91 Boston Public, 3, 179n10 Brown, Wendy, 90 Bush, George W., 1–2, 40, 56, 100, 132; Policies of, 5, 6, 66, 123, 150–51, 197n44 Butler, Judith, 71, 79, 99 Chouliaraki, Lillie, 97–98 Civil liberties, 6, 19, 139, 197n44; Suspension of, 57, 61–63, 133 Civil rights movement, 11–12, 28, 70, 137, 146; Co-optation of, 12–13 222 Index Clarion Fund, 163 Clash of civilizations, 107–8, 140–41, 195n17 Collins, Patricia Hill, 169 Colonialism, 8, 79, 105–6 Community, 172–76 Compassion, 88–92, 96, 98, 102 Cordoba Initiative, 167–68 Council on American-Islamic Relations, 4, 18, 51, 132; Advertising campaign, 134, 140–48, 170; Mission, 139–40 Cultural citizenship, 142, 148, 200n21 Cultural studies, 13–14 Culture talk, 29–30 Darwish, Nonie. See Native informants Deportation, 5, 15, 53, 57–59, 137, 172, 180n14 Detention, 5, 28, 47–48, 69–70, 127, 152; Representations of, 22, 58–62, 65; Support for, 133, 188n7; “Voluntary,” 60–62 Dirty bomber. See Padilla, Jose Dissenting feelings, 131 Diversity, 13, 31, 77, 86, 133–34, 169, 176–77; American identity and, 53–54, 154–57 Diversity patriotism, 17; Ambiguous assimilative diversity and, 135–37, 139; Approximating sameness through the “good Muslim” and, 141–48; Definition, 134; And diminishing difference, 148; Gone global, 134, 152–53, 157; Limits of, 159–61; And narratives of exclusion, 148 Douglas, Susan, 83 Dr. Phil Show, 92 The Education of Max Bickford, 3, 71, 190n36, 190n2 Embedded feminism, 83 Emotional hegemony, 130–31 Emotive public, 86, 98 Empathy, 72, 130 Empire, 103–4, 128, 130–31, 169. See also Imperialism Enemy combatant, 5, 125, 129, 180n16; Definitions, 123, 197n44 Eng, David, 111–12 Enlightened sexism, 83 Exceptionalism, 38, 54, 58; Logic of exception, 16, 44, 50, 52–54, 56–58, 63, 65–69, 123 Exclusionary logics, 16, 71 Failed heterosexuality. See Terrorism, failed heterosexuality and Feminism: Arab and Muslim, 79, 81–83; Colonial, 79; Co-optation of, 17, 79–83, 86, 91, 98 Feminist Majority Foundation, 83, 87 Ferguson, James, 148 Field of meaning, 7, 14, 44 Fiske, John, 48–49 Friedman, Thomas, 56...