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Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion Paperback – September 5, 2023

by Evelyn Alsultany (Author)
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How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims

One of Donald Trump’s first actions as President was to sign an executive order to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, a step toward the “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” he had campaigned on. This extraordinary act of Islamophobia provoked unprecedented opposition: Hollywood movies and mainstream television shows began to feature more Muslim characters in contexts other than terrorism; universities and private businesses included Muslims in their diversity initiatives; and the criminal justice system took hate crimes against Muslims more seriously. Yet Broken argues that, even amid this challenge to institutionalized Islamophobia, diversity initiatives fail on their promise by only focusing on crisis moments.

Evelyn Alsultany argues that Muslims get included through “crisis diversity,” where high-profile Islamophobic incidents are urgently responded to and then ignored until the next crisis. In the popular cultural arena of television, this means interrogating even those representations of Muslims that others have celebrated as refreshingly positive. What kind of message does it send, for example, when a growing number of “good Muslims” on TV seem to have arrived there, ironically, only after leaving the faith? In the realm of corporations, she critically examines the firing of high-profile individuals for anti-Muslim speech―a remedy that rebrands corporations as anti-racist while institutional racism remains intact. At universities, Muslim students get included in diversity, equity, and inclusion plans but that gets disrupted if they are involved in Palestinian rights activism. Finally, she turns to hate crime laws revealing how they fail to address root causes.

In each of these arenas, Alsultany finds an institutional pattern that defangs the promise of Muslim inclusion, deferring systemic change until and through the next “crisis.”

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"Alsultany carefully and brilliantly walks us through the minefield known as ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ to expose the hypocrisies embedded in American discourses of tolerance. Far from addressing the root problems of today’s inequities, Alsultany shows, contemporary tolerance talk often ends up reinscribing forms of intolerance while institutionalizing racism and Islamophobia. After you read this mind-bending book, not only will you understand the strange space in liberalism’s universe that Muslims occupy, where Muslims represent what must be tolerated and what must not be tolerated simultaneously, but you’ll also realize that the slogan ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ is missing the most significant term of all: justice." -- Moustafa Bayoumi ― author of This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror

"A fresh, passionate, and comprehensive exploration of where Muslims factor into American diversity initiatives. Employing a blend of scholarly research and personal experience, Alsultany deftly deconstructs the state of Muslim representation and inclusion in the media, universities and key US institutions." -- Lorraine Ali ― LA Times

"Alsultanydetails the limit of the liberal promise of inclusion in a brilliant and accessible way. Just when you think that Muslims have entered the doorway into humanity, you see that the inclusive move is itself how Muslim sub-personhood is secured. Broken is invaluable for anyone tempted to put their hopes in multicultural inclusion. Alsultany’s achievement is that we are now steps closer to imagining abolition, the end of systems that protect white property interests." -- Sherene H. Razack ― author of Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism

"With eloquent prose and a compelling voice, Broken fundamentally shifts contemporary frames for understanding Muslim representation in media, corporations, government, and universities from ‘Islamophobia’ to ‘Anti-Muslim Racism.’ In doing so, she provides a razor-sharp analysis of the truly systemic reality of anti-Muslim racism." -- Ralina Joseph ― author of Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity

"Alsultany traces how Muslims and Arabs have been incorporated into the United States, represented and racialized in its culture and politics. In some ways, these processes follow the patterns other groups experienced. But the context of terrorism and national security concerns charge the question of Arab and Muslim “otherness” in unique ways. Broken helps us articulate the racialization of 'otherness' and nonbelonging in new and important ways." -- Natalia Molina ― The Chronicle of Higher Education, Best Scholarly Books of 2022

"In this eye-opening, provocative work, Alsultany clearly demonstrates that many diversity initiatives fail when they’re centered around moments of crisis instead of lasting change. This narrative will stay with readers long after the last page. To gain understanding and achieve true allyship, this is an essential title to read." ― Library Journal (starred)

About the Author

Evelyn Alsultany is Professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College and author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11. She is the co-editor of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging and Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora. As a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US media, she co-authored the Obeidi-Alsultany Test to help Hollywood improve representations of Muslims and serves as a consultant for Hollywood studios.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ NYU Press (September 5, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1479805130
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1479805136
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.9 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 8.75 inches
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Evelyn Alsultany is a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US. media. She is the author of Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022), which was listed as one of the 10 best scholarly books of 2022 by The Chronicle of Higher Education, and was a finalist for the Association of American Publishers’ Prose Award. She is also the author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (NYU Press, 2012). She is the co-editor of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Syracuse University Press, 2011), winner of the Arab American National Museum’s Evelyn Shakir Book Award and Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (Univesity of Michigan Press, 2013). Alsultany is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College. Prior to her appointment at USC, she co-founded and served as the director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan. Professor Alsultany has served as an educator and consultant for Hollywood studios (Netflix, Amazon, NBC Universal) and co-authored criteria, the Obeidi-Alsultany Test, to help Hollywood improve representations of Muslims. She has published op-eds in The Hollywood Reporter, Time, and Newsweek.

For more about Evelyn Alsultany: http://evelynalsultany.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars A crucial update to the current realities of anti-Muslim racism
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2023
Dr. Alsultany’s newest book picks up where her last one left off, looking at how anti-Muslim racism persists in the US despite recent waves of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives following Trump’s presidency. Through surveys of media and legal representations of Muslims she gives us an answer to why, despite high visibility cases of exclusion and violence towards Muslims, there is very little sustainable change in their exclusion: “crisis diversity”. Every chapter shows cases where after a crisis, Muslims are quickly “included” but quickly become with confined to old but updated stereotypes, or excluded once public attention shifts elsewhere. This text is an amazing addition to courses in Ethnic Studies, Law, Immigration, Media Studies, Political Science, and Gender Studies.
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