Broken Av Evelyn Alsultany

<p><b><i>PROSE Award- Media and Cultural Studies Finalist</i><br/>How diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims </b><br/>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 <i>Broken</i> argues that, even amid this challenge to institutionalized Islamophobia, diversity initiatives fail on their promise by only focusing on crisis moments.<br/>Evelyn Alsultany argues that Muslims get included through ¿crisis diversity,¿ w