This blog sets out to bring together issues and concerns within the discourse of multiculturalism and social texts which i define as texts that generate public interest including news, editorial, popular literature and other popular texts in the media such as songs, advertisements, videos and movies. The coming weeks and month will present opportunities for me to draw on the discussion of multiculturalism from various parameters including ethnic studies, gender studies and cultural studies to facilitate how multiculturalism can be a useful tool to study social texts, and what these texts inform us of the state of our diverse world.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Husain Abdullah and the Muslim Minority in Ramadan

Finally, a story about acceptance and accommodation for the Muslim minority in America, albeit an individual's story.

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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Islamaphobia in America and the Multiculturalism of Fear

This I must say is an ugly story but its ugliness, I’m afraid, is rooted in a kind of fear that continues to mar the sensibilities of the multi-religious, multi-ethnic landscape of America. The following are extracts for the news article in TPMMuckraker about how a church in Florida sets out to "commemorate the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks":

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