Living between languages: The politics of translation in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers [PDF]
, 2012 This is the author's final draft post-refereeing as published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 2012 47: 207 DOI:10.1177/0021989412440433.
Aboulela L +50 more
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Unpacking the role of in‐group bias in US public opinion on human rights violations
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Which actor identities and social and political cleavages drive public opinion on human rights violations? While in‐group bias is known to influence public responses to government abuses, the relative impact of different identity characteristics has not been directly tested.
Rebecca Cordell
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Unmasking Hybridity in Popular Performance [PDF]
, 2018 This paper explores cultural hybridization in popular music and the eroticization of the exotic eastern aesthetic. Using musicology and anthropology as tools, the paper examines varying perspectives of the artists, audience and marginalized groups ...
Harder, Hannah M.
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Are Muslims the New Catholics? Europe’s Headscarf Laws in Comparative Historical Perspective [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper a biologically-inspired model for partly occluded patterns is proposed. The model is based on the hypothesis that in human visual system occluding patterns play a key role in recognition as well as in reconstructing internal representation ...
B. Aisa +9 more
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The electoral politics of immigration and crime
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes and voting behavior due to educational realignment.
Jeyhun Alizade
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Women’s voices in diaspora: hip hop, spoken word, Islam and web 2.0
Comunicação e Sociedade, 2019 This paper focuses on the artistic production of four hip hop and spoken word artists belonging to the Muslim diaspora, Poetic Pilgrimage, Alia Sharrief, Hanouneh and Alia Gabres, aiming to understand if such cultural practices can be understood as forms
Cláudia Araújo
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Ethnicity and obesity: Evidence of implicit work performance stereo-types in Sweden [PDF]
, 2007 Using the Implicit Association Test, we investigate whether employers and students possess implicit and explicit negative attitudes and implicit performance stereotypes toward Arab-Muslim men relative to native Swedish men.
Agerström, Jens +2 more
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Maps and Diaspora: Affect, Agency and Epistolary Praxis
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract Following discussions, interactions and reflections during the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) conference ‘Map Room Conversations’ sessions, this paper examines maps and diaspora through an affective lens. By utilising an auto‐ethnographic epistolary praxis of letter writing and employing the therapeutic prompt, ‘What came up for ...
Rohini Rai, Iqbal Singh
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Third Grade Connections to Middle Eastern and Arab Cultures
WOW Stories, 2011 This vignette explores the integration of picturebooks centered on Middle Eastern cultures and people in a third grade classroom to challenge stereotypes and ignorance regarding Muslim cultures.
Rhonda Hover
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Terrorists Are Always Muslim but Never White: At the Intersection of Critical Race Theory and Propaganda [PDF]
, 2017 When you hear the word “terrorist,” who do you picture? Chances are, it is not a white person. In the United States, two common though false narratives about terrorists who attack America abound. We see them on television, in the movies, on the news, and,
Corbin, Caroline Mala
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