[ecrea] New Book -- Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era

http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299174232


NEW FROM UBC PRESS

Shines a light on post-9/11 news coverage in Canada to uncover racist 
media representations of Muslims.

UBC Press is pleased to announce the publication of Mission Invisible by 
Ross Perigoe and Mahmoud Eid.



Mission Invisible
Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era
By Ross Perigoe and Mahmoud Eid

Media Studies, Multiculturalism & Transnationalism, Religion & Society, 
Race & Ethnicity

ISBN 9780774826488
Paperback $34.95
UBC Press 2014

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About the Book

The attacks of 9/11 created a philosophical and cultural shockwave felt 
around the world. For many Canadians, 9/11 also produced feelings of 
insecurity, vulnerability, and suspicion of "Muslims" in general. Being 
Muslim was often seen as being Arab, and diverse Muslim communities were 
glossed over as if they were invisible. How did these negative attitudes 
come about?

Many point to the role of the news media in framing and contextualizing 
events and its complicity in reproducing racist images of Muslim 
minorities. Strikingly lacking from media analyses, however, is a focus 
on the most significant stage of reportage: the initial weeks in which 
the events, surrounding issues, and primary actors of 9/11 were all 
first framed by journalists. The authors of Mission Invisible chronicle 
varying racialized constructions of Muslim communities in the news 
during these initial weeks. Through detailed examination of the 
naturalized underrepresentation and misrepresentation of Muslim 
communities, they map the production of racist ideology in the news, 
parsing textual productions to locate complex patterns of rhetorical 
devices, dramatic structure, and discursive themes.

In showing how media coverage of Muslim communities was imagined, 
negotiated, and represented after 9/11, Mission Invisible provides 
much-needed empirical evidence of how racist discourses are constructed 
and reinforced by the media in a unique Canadian setting where 
linguistic and cultural communities are often in contention.

Endorsements

"Anyone interested in the cultural, organizational, and procedural 
biases in the news media that result in racial stereotyping must read 
this meticulously researched and compellingly analyzed study of the 
mass-mediated (mis)representation of Canada’s Muslim communities 
following 9/11."
– Brigitte Nacos, co-author of Selling Fear: Counterterrorism, the 
Media, and Public Opinion

"Mission Invisible adds immensely to our understanding of the media’s 
role in shaping attitudes about diverse people in our communities -- 
people whose alleged ‘difference’ makes them unwelcome and possibly even 
dangerous. Essential reading for those in media and communication 
studies, it will also be welcomed by those studying the framing of race, 
ethnicity, and transnationalism."
– Frances Henry, co-author of Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in 
the Canadian English-Language Press

"Ross Perigoe and Mahmoud Eid should be applauded for uncovering the 
ongoing media discrimination faced by Muslims; their book analyzes some 
of the most passively accepted yet outrageous statements made after the 
tragedy of 9/11. Without this scholarship, we risk having a chauvinistic 
period of journalism lost to our collective memory."
– C. Darius Stonebanks, co-editor of Teaching against Islamophobia

About the Authors
Ross Perigoe was an associate professor of journalism at Concordia 
University, where he taught from 1985 to 2012. In 2009, he received the 
Canadian Radio and Television News Directors Association’s Michael Monty 
Memorial Award for excellence in broadcast teaching and mentorship.

Mahmoud Eid is an associate professor at the Department of 
Communication, University of Ottawa. He is the author of Interweavement: 
International Media Ethics and Rational Decision-Making (2008), editor 
of Exchanging Terrorism Oxygen for Media Airwaves: The Age of Terroredia 
(2014) and Research Methods in Communication (2011), and the co-editor 
of Basics in Communication and Media Studies (2012), among other 
publications.

Sample Chapter

Download sample chapter [PDF]

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Mission Visible?
Rationale
Why 9/11 and Canada?
Why Racism?
Why Muslims?
Why The Gazette?
Overview

1 Mission Recognition
The Event
The Medium
The Moment
The Message
The Method
The Procedure

2 Mission Ambition
Impact of the Media
Journalists’ Agendas

3 Mission Decision
The Rhetoric of Racism
The Discourse of Racism
The Discourse of Anti-Racism

4 Mission Oppression
The Discourses of Grief
The Discourses of Justification for War
The Discourses of Readying for War
The Discourses of Orientalism

5 Mission Perception
Shock and Disbelief
Denial
Blamelessness
Anger
Personal Safety
Revenge
Racial Profiling
Fear and Moral Panic
Acceptance
Impact on Quebecers

6 Mission Opposition
Descriptive Analysis of Muslims’ Voices
Discursive Themes of Muslims’ Voices
The Discourse of the "Good" Muslim

7 Mission Position
Writings on Leaders’ Voices
Writings on White Victims’ Voices
Writings on Muslims’ Voices

8 Mission Envision
Representations of Leaders’ Voices
Representations of White Victims’ Voices
Representations of Muslims’ Voices

9 Mission Completion
The Journalistic Process in Context
Newsgathering Practices
The Effects of the Messages
The Anti-Terrorism Act
Racial Profiling

10 Mission Condition
The Gazette: Success or Failure?
White Readership
Muslim Readership
Journalistic Leadership

Conclusion: Mission Invisible!
Why Invisible?
Correcting Vision
Hindsight 20/20

Notes
References
About the Authors
Index




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