how schools and the media distort our understanding of the Islamic world /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Westport, Conn. :
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Praeger,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (viii, 208 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Reverberations : cultural studies and education
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction / Joe L. Kincheloe -- September 11, terror war, and blowback / Douglas Kellner -- Loving Muslim women with a vengeance : the West, women, and fundamentalism / Loubna Skalli -- Iran and American miseducation : cover-ups, distortions, and omissions / Joe L. Kincheloe -- Consequences of perceived ethnic identities / Christopher D. Stonebanks -- The United States and Israel : double standards, favoritism, and unconditional support / Mordechai Gordon -- The great European denial : the misrepresentation of the Moors in Western education / Haroon Kharem -- Schooled to order : education and the making of modern Egypt / Yusef J. Progler -- The new bogeyman under the bed : image formation of Islam in the Western school curriculum and media / Ibrahim Abukhattala -- Desert minstrels : Hollywood's curriculum of Arabs and Muslims / Shirley R. Steinberg.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The Miseducation of the West examines the ways in which educational institutions such as media and schools have shaped Western views of Islam. The nature of these messages tells readers as much, if not more, about Western self-images as they do about Islam and Islamic peoples. Quickly emerging is a Western perspective on the other. Westerners found easy justification for the colonial conquest of many Islamic lands. In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries England, France, and to a lesser extent Russia colonized much of the Mulsim world with the United States entering the picture after World.