FYI: A is for Arab Exhibit by Jack Shaheen at University of North Texas

From: Stockdale, Nancy [[email protected]]

A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture

The traveling exhibition of the Jack G. Shaheen Archive at New York University is coming to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas! The exhibit will be free and open to the public, housed in the Forum at Willis Library, May 9th – May 23rd, 2013, on the UNT Denton campus.

For more information about the exhibit, please visit http://www.apa.nyu.edu/SHAHEEN

For more information about the exhibit at UNT, please contact Ms. Diana Leilani Fonner at 940-369-7778 or Dr. Nancy L. Stockdale at [email protected].

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For a map of the UNT campus (including parking information), please visit http://maps.unt.edu/sites/all/themes/unt/UNT_Campus_Map.pdf

From the archive:

“The exotic harem maiden. The oil sheikh. The nomadic desert dweller. The enraged terrorist. How have Arabs been portrayed on screen? In comic books and editorial cartoons? In children's books and romance novels? And how do these representations shape public perceptions and affect people of all races, ethnicities, religions, and nationalities?

In the 1970s, renowned professor, author, and cultural consultant Dr. Jack G. Shaheen asked himself these same questions after identifying dehumanizing representations of Arabs in his children's books, cartoons, and toys. Deciding that these depictions demanded interrogation, Dr. Shaheen, with the help of his wife, Bernice Shaheen, dedicated his life to collecting and challenging images that maligned Arabs by casting them as the cultural 'other.' A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture highlights and contextualizes the anti-Arab stereotypes documented by the Jack G. Shaheen Archive, now housed at New York University's Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

Containing nearly 3,000 moving images including motion pictures, cartoons, newsreels, and television programs, as well as editorial cartoons, advertisements, books, magazines, comic books, toys, and games, the Jack G. Shaheen archive reveals U.S. representations of Arabs from the early-20th century to the present.”

Please join us at UNT for this historic presentation of Jack G. Shaheen's traveling exhibition, A is for Arab!
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Dr. Nancy L. Stockdale
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern History
and Faculty Affiliate, Contemporary Arab & Muslim Cultural Studies Institute
Department of History
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #310650
Denton, Texas  76203 USA
[email protected]
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