Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, the Media & the War on Terror from arab elites Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 33 min 48 sec
✓ Published: 07-Apr-2018

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Deepa Kumar, one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Islamophobia, looks at how Muslims have become the predominant face of terror in U.S. news and entertainment media -- even though terror attacks by white extremists have far outnumbered attacks by Muslim Americans since 9/11.nnArguing that racialized threats have long been used to induce moral panics and advance anti-democratic policies, Kumar explores how ruling elites have been raising the specter of Arab and Islamic terror since the 1970