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5 - The News Media’s Portrayals of Muslim Americans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2020

Nazita Lajevardi
Nazita Lajevardi
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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Because public opinion surveys about Muslim Americans prior to 9/11 are rare, the fifth chapter turns to the news media as a vital lens in assessing how Muslims and Muslim Americans have been communicated to the general public since 1992. The volume of news coverage of a racialized group signifies that group’s salience at a given point in time, while the sentiment of such coverage can signal how Muslim Americans are being communicated to – and perhaps even perceived by – the mass public. Overall, the results demonstrate that media coverage of Muslims and Muslim Americans is broadly negative and has worsened over time. 

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news mediapublic opinionstigmatized groupsMuslims
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Outsiders at Home
The Politics of American Islamophobia
 , pp. 86 - 107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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