Miseducation of the West

JOE L. KINCHELOE is Professor of Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Brooklyn College where he has served as the Belle Zeller Chair of Public Policy and Admnistration. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, most notably The Sign of the Burger: McDonald's and the Culture of Power and Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined. Shirley R. Steinberg is Associate Professor Education at Brooklyn College. She is the senior editor of Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education and the author and editor of many books and articles, most notably Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood and Measured Lies: The Bell Curve Examined.SHIRLEY R. STEINBERG is the Director of the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy at McGill University. She is the author and editor of many books and articles including Media Literacy: A Reader and 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City.

• CONTENTSCONTENTSContents 1 Introduction 1Joe L. Kincheloe2 September 11, Terror War, and Blowback 25Douglas Kellner3 Loving Muslim Women with a Vengeance: The West, Women, and Fundamentalism 43Loubna Skalli4 Iran and American Miseducation: Cover-Ups, Distortions, and Omissions 59Joe L. Kincheloe5 Consequences of Perceived Ethnic Identities 87Christopher D. Stonebanks6 The United States and Israel: Double Standards, Favoritism, and Unconditional Support 103Mordechai Gordon7 The Great European Denial: The Misrepresentation of the Moors in Western Education 117Haroon Kharem8 Schooled to Order: Education and the Making of Modern Egypt 127Yusef J. Progler9 The New Bogeyman under the Bed: Image Formation of Islam in the Western School Curriculum and Media 153Ibrahim Abukhattala10 Desert Minstrels: Hollywood's Curriculum of Arabs and Muslims 171Shirley R. SteinbergNotes 181Index 199About the Editors and the Contributors 209