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Ross Perigoe - Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era - 9780774826471 - V9780774826471
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Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era

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Description for Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era Hardback. By unravelling the discourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn of the 9/11 era, this book not only uncovers racist representations of Muslim communities but also reveals the discursive processes that rendered this racism invisible. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFD; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.

The attacks of 9/11 created a philosophical and cultural shockwave felt around the world. For many Canadians, 9/11 also produced feelings of insecurity, vulnerability, and suspicion of “Muslims” in general. Being Muslim was often seen as being Arab, and diverse Muslim communities were glossed over as if they were invisible. How did these negative attitudes come about?

Many point to the role of the news media in framing and contextualizing events post-9/11 and its complicity in reproducing racist images of Muslim minorities. Mission Invisible chronicles varying racialized constructions of Muslim communities in the news during the most significant stage of reportage: ... Read more

In showing how media coverage of Muslim communities was imagined, negotiated, and represented after 9/11, Mission Invisible provides much-needed empirical evidence of how racist discourses are constructed and reinforced by the media in Canada.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774826471
SKU
V9780774826471
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About Ross Perigoe
Ross Perigoe was an associate professor of journalism at Concordia University. Mahmoud Eid is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa.

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