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Author Salaita, Steven, 1975-

Title The uncultured wars : Arabs, Muslims, and the poverty of liberal thought : new essays / Steven Salaita
Published London, UK ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 168 pages)
Contents Anti-Arab racism, American liberals and the new civilian terrorists -- The indispensably expendable -- I was called up to commit genocide -- Open-mindedness on Independence Day -- Michael Moore does it again -- Ambition, terrorism and empathy -- Is jackass unjustifiable? -- The perils and profits of doing comparative work -- What is Michael Lerner really talking about? -- Immigrants are not homogenous -- Distress and bluster at Columbia; or, The day Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to academe and promptly emblematized terrorism -- The zealots of clandestine faith
Summary This is a powerful indictment of dominant American liberal-left discourse. Through 12 essays Steven Salaita returns again and again to his core themes of anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia and the inadequacy of critical thought amongst the 'chattering classes', showing how racism continues to exist in the places where we would least expect it
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Subject Arab Americans -- Social conditions
Muslims -- United States -- Social conditions
Racism -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Arab Americans -- Social conditions
Muslims -- Social conditions
Race relations
Racism
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States
USA
Araber.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781848132368
1848132360
9781848135024
1848135025
1282115472
9781282115477
9786612115479
6612115475
Other Titles Arabs, Muslims, and the poverty of liberal thought