Abstract
his article employs theories of counterpublics to investigate the Arab-American press before and after 9/11 as a counterpublic to the American war on terror. We use Squires's categorization of counterpublics as (1) assimilative enclaves, (2) satellites seeking separation, or (3) resistant counterpublics, actively dissenting. Using a corpus of 113 articles from Arab American News, we argue that the Arab-American press circulated stories consistent with (1) and (2) but not (3). We conclude that a strategy of active resistance required greater standing of the Arab-American point of view in mainstream American thought than Arab-Americans enjoyed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 47-65 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Rhetoric Review |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |