Interpreting Islam in American Schools

How is Islam taught in American schools? Teaching Islam to young Americans is a relatively recent phenomenon. The Israeli-Arab conflict shaped the contours of the study of Islam with images and stereotypes inherited from the Crusades and Colonialism. Islam has been taught not as an essential ingredi...

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Authors: Douglass, Susan L. 1950- (Author) ; Dunn, Ross E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2003
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Year: 2003, Volume: 588, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-72
Further subjects:B curriculum reform
B Multiculturalism
B American schools in the twentieth century
B religion in American schools
B media images
B history textbooks
B Stereotypes
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