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Video Commentary: Street Fighter V
Click on the image above to browse the project. This project explores the “Middle Eastern” character of Rashid in Street Fighter V.
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Video Commentary: Middle East in the Media
From working on this project, I was able to apply my newfound awareness, which was found in this class, to create a video to highlight the stereotypical, and honestly racist, visuals we are typically given in media to depict the Middle East. Since we have not really looked at visual representations of the “real” Middle…
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The Deserted Race in Iron Man
For my historical analysis paper about post 9/11, the text I have chosen to focus on was the first Iron Man movie directed by Jon Favreau alongside the Marvel franchise. The movie was released on May 2, 2008 and reached $585.8 million in the box office. The audiences loved the triumphant message of the film…
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Post-9/11 Surveillance
After the events of 9/11, the United States saw two major changes to surveillance. Firstly, there was a large impact on Muslims, Arabs, and anyone that appeared to be “Muslim, Arab, or Middle Eastern” (Volpp). In relation to this, the United States saw an influx of racial violence and profiling. Meanwhile, laws such as the…
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War on Terror
The War on Terror began as a global counterterrorism campaign in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Not only has this war taken place for the last 20 years, but it has also cost a total of $8 trillion and resulted in over 900,000 deaths. A part of the War on Terror was…
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Discourses on Veiling
For my presentation, “Discourses on Veiling,” I look at how people that practice Islam cover themselves for a variety of reasons. This presentation offers a small look at real people that are Muslims, how the veil operates in western culture, and it offers a bit of research into what Islamic Feminism looks like today. First,…
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The Racialization of Muslims
In order to accurately define the ideas behind the racialization of Muslims, first it is important to understand something called “racial formation.” Racial formation, as stated by Michael Omi and Howard Winant, describes the idea of racial formation saying that it is “the sociohistorical process by which racial identities are created, lived out, transformed, and…
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Orientalism
Orientalism as a theory and academic discourse was first established in Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978). Many credit Said with the founding of postcolonialism with this text. Said gives three definitions for orientalism based on the Orient being the East and the Occident being the West (the U.S., Britain, and France): Academic definition meaning “one who…
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Unifying Rhetoric
On August 16, 2021, President Biden addressed the nation with the intent to explain the removal of American troops in Afghanistan. A survey conducted by The Chicago Council on July 26, 2021, showed that 70% of Americans supported the idea that the U.S. should “withdraw U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021” (Sullivan…