Muslims In The Media with Evelyn Alsultany
What is crisis diversity? In what ways did 9/11 impact the Muslim community?
In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, anti-racism educator, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Evelyn Alsultany, an associate professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity. They discuss the lived experiences of growing up as the child of an Iraqi-Muslim immigrant. Alsultany examines the troupes of “good” vs “bad” Muslims in the media, and how crisis diversity can be a detriment to wider DEI efforts.
Evelyn Alsultany is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US. media. She is a professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College. Professor Alsultany has served as an educator and consultant for Hollywood studios (Netflix, Amazon, NBC Universal) and co-authored criteria, the Obeidi-Alsultany Test, to help Hollywood improve representations of Muslims.
LINKS
Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022)
Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (NYU Press, 2012
Instagram and Twitter: @EvelynAlsultany
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