Asian/Pacific/American Institute

Jack Shaheen’s Preservation of a Troubling Film Legacy

posted May 2, 2018

Hollywood and other branches of the American entertainment industry have frequently disparaged and abused Arabs, Muslims, and Americans of those ethnicities. Adverse depictions have long been so common as to be almost automatic. Those stereotypes are the study of a project at New York University based on an unusual collection: the archive donated by Jack G. Shaheen.

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