Guide to the Jack G. Shaheen Papers, 1940-2018

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Guide to the Jack G. Shaheen Papers, 1940-2018

1940-2018

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_535/tam_535.html

Dr. Jack G. Shaheen (1935-2017) was a professor, author, and consultant who dedicated his career to identifying and contesting stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in American media. The Jack G. Shaheen Papers date from 1943 to 2012 and document Shaheen's scholarly and popular writing and research in media analysis; his media accountability activism through the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC); and his consultation work on legal cases as well as the entertainment industry. The collection includes printed and born-digital draft and revised writings, speeches, notes, research and subject files, reports, correspondence, and sound and video recordings of Shaheen's speeches. The collection also contains material collected by Shaheen, including comic books; editorial cartoons; recordings of movies, television shows, and cartoons; magazines; posters; advertisements; toys; games; and other ephemera, which depict Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture and mass media from the late 19th to the 21st centuries.

104 Linear Feet, 515 videodiscs (dvd), 621 videocassettes (vhs), 26 sound discs (cd), 11 videocassettes (minidv), 4 videodiscs (blue ray), 46 electronic discs (cd-rom), 30 film reels, 1 videoreels (2 inch), 1.35 Megabytes in two documents, 26 audiocassettes, 114 dvd-r disks, 16 Gigabytes in 2 flash drives, 2 3.5" floppy disks, 36 Megabytes in 30 5.25" floppy disks

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Shaheen, Jack George, Jr., 1935-2017

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Dr. Jack G. Shaheen (1935-2017) was a professor, author, and consultant who dedicated his career to identifying and contesting stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in American media. His research analyzes the origins of these stereotypes, their persistence, the ways in which they affect perceptions of Arabs and Muslims in society, and presents solutions to counter them effectively. He was a professor emeritus of Mass Communications at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Illinois where he t...