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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Lecture given at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Deepa Kumar, one of the natiońђةs 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.Arguing 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 1970s to justify militarism, war, and curbs on civil liberties. From the Iran-Hostage Crisis in 1979 to the ́ђجwar on terroŕђح after 9/11 to the rise of ISIS today, she argues that Americans have been taught to fear Muslims out of all proportion to reality, presenting a wealth of eye-opening data about the actual threat level posed by Muslim terrorists in the United States. Constructing the Terrorist Threat offers a clear-headed assessment of terrorism that couldńђةt be more timely and urgent given the politics of fear that now dominate our political landscape
Written by Deepa Kumar. Directed by Sut Jhally. Executive Producer: Sut Jhally. Producers: Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp, Jason Young. Editor: Jason Young. Director of Photography: David Rabinovitz
Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2017
Grade 9-adult
Mode of access: World Wide Web