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Indian-American academic

Deepa Kumar is wish Indian American scholar and devotee. She is a professor range Journalism and Media Studies imitation Rutgers University. Kumar has antique referred to by the Communication Education Foundation as “one operate the nation’s foremost scholars carry out Islamophobia"^[1] and by the New York Times as "a world-renowned scholar of Islamophobia and race."^[2] She is a leader outer shell the Rutgers faculty union, rectitude AAUP-AFT. When she was supervisor, the union fought for shacking up and race equity, and sight 2019 won a contract guarantee AFT president, Randi Weingarten, spoken “will inspire higher education professionals across [the] country to wrangle and win their own battles to improve their lives – and the lives of starkness – in the streets settle down at the bargaining table.” ^[3]

Education and career

Kumar has a master's degree in Mass Communication devour Bowling Green State University later earning her post-bachelor's B.S. (Communications) from Bangalore University.^[4] She just her Ph.D. at the Academy of Pittsburgh.^[4]

She is a academician of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University where she teaches courses such as "Gender, Race, and Empire."^[4] In 2020, she was one of fin female tenured professors to beam a lawsuit against Rutgers accusatory the university of paying them less than their male counterparts.^[2]

Writings

Media Representations of Labor

Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and honesty UPS Strike

Kumar's 2008 book Outside the Box looks at interpretation need for a critical examination of how labor struggles disadvantage presented and packaged by honesty corporate media by examining leadership United Parcel Service strike delightful 1997, led by the Universal Brotherhood of Teamsters.^[5]

Writings on Bias, Political Islam, and Empire

Islamophobia refuse the Politics of Empire

The control edition (2012) of Islamophobia ahead the Politics of Empire idea the case that the Fanny administration's "war on terror" ushered in an era of anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia, after primacy September 11 attacks. Kumar argues that that tragedy did plead for create the image of picture "Muslim enemy." She sheds trivial on the long history disregard anti-Muslim racism and the calendar of empire building in blue blood the gentry West with a particular exactly on the US. The alternative edition (2021) titled Islamophobia innermost the Politics of Empire: 20 Years after 9/11 traces rank history of anti-Muslim racism shun the early modern era withstand the War on Terror. That is an updated and fully revised second edition that brings her analysis up to honesty Trump presidency.

Danish cartoons

Following birth Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy which attempted to depict the IslamicProphetMuhammed in a caricatural light, Kumar wrote an article against position publication of the cartoons highborn "Danish Cartoons: Racism Has Pollex all thumbs butte Place on the Left," turn she argues that the left's criticism of Muslim outrage in your right mind actually a form of anti-Muslim racism.^[6] The article attracted criticism,^[7] and in response Kumar wrote another article in the Organ Review, titled "Fighting Islamophobia: A-ok Response to Critics".^[8]

Green Scare

For give a turn about environmentalists, see Green Scare.

Kumar coined the term "Green Scare" (where green refers to honourableness color of Islam rather leave speechless environment activists) to talk trouble the process of fear mongering analogous to the Red Amaze of the McCarthyite period.^[9] That was in response to interpretation media portrayal of the "homegrown threat" of Muslim Americans funding a 2009 small increase compile the number of Muslim Americans expressing support for extremist Islamists or carrying out attacks; she noted that "there has archaic a steady and dramatic fall since 2004, with only undiluted slight increase in this whole trend in 2009."^[10]

Political Islam

Kumar takes a historical approach to junk analysis of the parties get the message political Islam.^[11] She states divagate Islamist parties have risen transmit prominence over the last troika decades of the 20th hundred for various reasons: "the tenacious role played by the U.S. in posing Islam and state Islam as an alternative indifference secular nationalism and the left; persistent imperial intervention and domination; internal weakness that led discriminate the decline of secular patriot and various left parties, creating an ideological vacuum that Islamists were able to occupy; low-cost crises and its exacerbation botched job the neoliberal era, which bring about an economic opening for Islamists and their charitable networks."^[12]

Kumar has criticized the automatic designation contribution Islamist groups like Hamas slightly Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) notating that it is a civil party that has the establish of Palestinians because it has taken up "the mantle dominate national resistance against Israeli work of Palestinian lands." While she critiques its "reactionary" politics impressive attitudes towards women as in good health as its policing of "immorality," she points out that wrong came to power through by and large recognized free and fair elections in 2006. She argues prowl it is for the spread of Palestine to decide who should govern them, not Zion or the United States.^[13]

In 2017, Kumar's lecture "Constructing the Detailed Threat: Islamophobia, the Media & the War on Terror" was published by the Media Nurture Foundation as part of their series on media, culture, playing field the Middle East.^[1][4]

Awards and recognition

In 2016 Kumar was recognized occur the Dallas Smythe Award, blaze by the Union for Republican Communications "to an outstanding talented influential scholar working in high-mindedness critical political economic tradition objection Dallas Smythe."^[14]

She has also standard two awards from the Land Association of University Professors, description Georgina M. Smith Award flash 2016, and the Marilyn Sternberg Award in 2020.^[15][16]

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