TY - JOUR
T1 - The war on terror through Arab-American Eyes: The Arab-American press as a rhetorical counterpublic
T2 - The Arab-American press as a rhetorical counterpublic
AU - Kaufer, David
AU - Al-Malki, Amal Mohammed
PY - 2009/1/14
Y1 - 2009/1/14
N2 - his article employs theories of counterpublics to investigate the Arab-American press before and after 9/11 as a counterpublic to the American war on terror. We use Squires's categorization of counterpublics as (1) assimilative enclaves, (2) satellites seeking separation, or (3) resistant counterpublics, actively dissenting. Using a corpus of 113 articles from Arab American News, we argue that the Arab-American press circulated stories consistent with (1) and (2) but not (3). We conclude that a strategy of active resistance required greater standing of the Arab-American point of view in mainstream American thought than Arab-Americans enjoyed.
AB - his article employs theories of counterpublics to investigate the Arab-American press before and after 9/11 as a counterpublic to the American war on terror. We use Squires's categorization of counterpublics as (1) assimilative enclaves, (2) satellites seeking separation, or (3) resistant counterpublics, actively dissenting. Using a corpus of 113 articles from Arab American News, we argue that the Arab-American press circulated stories consistent with (1) and (2) but not (3). We conclude that a strategy of active resistance required greater standing of the Arab-American point of view in mainstream American thought than Arab-Americans enjoyed.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/58249136302
U2 - 10.1080/07350190802540724
DO - 10.1080/07350190802540724
M3 - Article
SN - 0735-0198
VL - 28
SP - 47
EP - 65
JO - Rhetoric Review
JF - Rhetoric Review
IS - 1
ER -