Home/Land/Security: What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Films

As the American government uses the threat of terrorist violence to justify stringent domestic and exploitative foreign policies, Arab communities in the United States face the injustice of racial profiling and harrassment. The reaction of Americans to the genre of action-adventure film and its increasing use of Arabs as villians shows how our perceptions of Arab communities and individuals has been skewed.

Using focus groups composed of a diverse cross-section of Americans, Karin Gwinn Wil...