| Never miss a show! |  |
Email Signup |  |
Spotify |  |
RSS Feed |  |
Apple Podcasts |
Hollywood has had a long history of whitewashing and stereotyping different groups –from brownface to blackface and yellowface. For Arabs and Muslims, persistent clichés throughout Hollywood’s history range from desert scenes with camels and palm trees, and characters cast as barbaric villains, belly dancers, or terrorists among others.
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll meet people confronting racist depictions of Muslims and Arabs in pop culture and politics; and two young women evaluating societal expectations placed on them.
Featuring:
- Diana Kalaji, student at University of San Francisco
- Moustafa Bayoumi, author of “This Muslim American Life, Dispatches from the War on Terror.”
Credits
- Host: Laura Flynn
- Contributing Producer: Diana Kalaji
- Associate Producer: Marie Choi
- Photo Credit: “Community March Against Islamophobia December 13, 2015”, Misha Voloaca
- Music Credit: BOPD, aint no thing, Vir Noctruna, Stop + Go
More information:
- Moustafa Bayoumi: “This Muslim American Life, Dispatches from the War on Terror”
More stories like this:
Manufacturing Terror: The Media’s Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Problem
Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry
15 Years After 9/11, Still Searching for Monsters to Destroy
Operation Boulder from Kerning Cultures
Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes
