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Racial Realism or Foolish Optimism: An African American Muslim Woman in the Field
(Library Juice Press, 2016-01-21)
This essay discusses a number of identity issues related to what people of color experience in American society, with a particular focus on Derrick Bell's concept of racial realism. The essay looks at Bell's theory as it ...
The Peculiar Institution: The Depiction of Slavery in Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood and Zulu Heart
(Lexington Books, 2016-03-11)
Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood (2002) and its sequel Zulu Heart (2003) combine Africa, Islam and Muslims to show positive and negative sides of what would have happened if whites were the enslaved and blacks were the slave ...
Reel Muslim Women: The Depiction of Muslim Women on Film and TV
(2019-05-01)
This poster explores the depiction of Muslim women in film and on television. Hollywood has often portrayed Muslim women as angry, insensitive mothers, sisters, and daughters in dramas such as The Bodyguard and American ...