Gender, Race, and Muslim Americans
True or False:
According to FBI data, Anti-Muslim assaults in 2016 exceeded those in 2001.True
2001: 93
2016: 127
This Disney animated film aimed at children included a song that referenced a fictional Arab country as "barbaric."
Aladdin (1992)
Lyrics from "Arabian Nights":
Oh, I come from a land
From a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam.
Where they cut off your ear
If they don’t like your face
It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home.
True or False:
The gap in wealth between the richest and poorest countries today is larger than it was in the 19th and 20th centuries.
True
This country in the global North consumes 25% of the world's resources, contributes 30% of the world's pollution, but only has 5% of the worlds human population.
United States of America.
True or False:
In 2023, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) received the lowest number of complaints of Anti-Muslim discrimination ever recorded in its 30-year history.
False
CAIR received 8,061 complaints nationwide in 2023 - the highest number of complaints CAIR has ever recorded in its 30-year history.
This group has historically been stereotyped as violent barbarians, greedy sheiks, and bloodthirsty terrorists in American films.
Arab and Muslim Men
This term refers to the systemic exploitation and destruction of life in the Americas, Africa, and Asia by Europeans.
European colonialism
Free trade, deregulation, privatization, and tax cuts for the rich are all traits of this global political-economic order.
Neoliberalism
This type of surveillance experienced by Muslim American men and women is informed by phenotype, dress, religion, speech, and other signifiers.
Racialized Surveillance
True or false:
The Costs of War project finds that acute malnutrition and poverty in Afghanistan was lower in 2022 than in 2001.
False
Before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the rate of child acute malnutrition was 9%. 80% of Afghans lived in poverty.
In 2022, after 20 years of Military occupation, 50% of children were estimated to be malnourished and 97% of Afghans living in poverty.
This part of the world spends $10-$25 on debt repayments for every $1 it receives in grants.
Global South
(aka, developing countries)
This agricultural practice reinforced a state of dependency between colonial powers and their colonies by structuring economies around the growing of one crop (e.g., tea, coffee, sugar) that would then be sold cheaply to the colonial power.
Monoculture
According to Saher Selod, this program contributes to the surveillance of Muslim Americans by encouraging private citizens to report suspicious activities in the name of national security and terrorism prevention.
If You See Something, Say Something campaign
This department of the United States government cooperated with the production of Rules of Engagement and many other U.S. films.
U.S. Department of Defense
(Rule of Engagement was written by the former secretary of the Navy and received script edits from the Pentagon)
According to the End of Poverty, the top 1% richest of the world own this much of the world's wealth.
32% of the world's wealth as of 2008.
...in 2018, however, this amount rose to 45%.
This country's democratically elected leader was overthrown with the help of the United States government and U.S. corporate interests.
Guatemala
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Chile
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Iran
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Muslim women who wear the hijab are subjected to more stops and searches by TSA agents. Saher Selod (2019) argues that this demonstrates how the process of racialization is organized by gender and has gendered consequences, which she calls ______.
Gendered racialization
Between 1994 and 2020, this group accounted for the majority of all domestic terrorist incidents in the United States.
Right-wing extremists including white supremacists.
According to the documentary, End of Poverty, This percentage of the world's human population uses over 80% of the world's resources and causes 70% of the world's pollution.
Less than 25%
A set of economic reforms that a country must adhere to in order to secure a loan from the International Monetary Fund and/or the World Bank.
Structural adjustment programs
(Structural adjustments often include reducing government spending, opening to free trade, and so on.)