Introduction and Definitions 1. “What Muslims?” 2. “Our Muhammedan Wards, the Philippine Problem” 3. “The Harem and the Bath” 4. “The Bloody Turk” 5. “Holy War and the Yellow Peril” 6. “Timeless, Child-Like, and Drugged Up” 7. “Echoes of the Past” Notes Bibliography Index
Examines the way Islam, Muslims and the Islamic world were portrayed in U.S. popular culture between 1880 and 1922, focusing on comics and cartoons.
Maryanne A. Rhett is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and World History at Monmouth University, USA. She is the author of A Global History of the Balfour Declaration (2015).
Maryanne Rhett provides evidence for the claim that comics matter –
that they tell us something about society and the collective
meanings we have made of the world around us, both as far back as
the late 19th and early 20th century platinum age of comics and –
by implication -- today. She uncovers political cartoons and comics
strips that are otherwise buried, fluently reads them as art and
text, and inserts them into a discourse informed by Edward Said and
Yvonne Haddad. Critically, this work extends our understanding of
Islam in the United States, and American visions of Islam, to an
era often ignored by other scholars.
*Trevor Getz, Professor of History, San Francisco State University,
USA*
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