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The "Arab Americans and other Middle Easterners" chapter of the book discusses the history of Arab and Middle Eastern people in America including the struggles and accomplishments the group has faced. The author often talks about the racial framing (the organized set of racial ideas, stereotypes, images, emotions, and inclinations to discriminate) that are created for this group in America and how this contributes to prejudice attitudes. One of the most common stereotypes is the western ideology of Orientalism, which exaggerates aspects of Middle Eastern and Asian culture and depicts it as uncivilized and static. This extends to many people's views of immigrants and Americans who have ancestry from these regions. They are automatically seen as violent and put into the category as terrorists instead of being seen as individuals. Looking more into the theory of racial framing will help in my essay because it gives another reason why terrorists from the Middle East are seen differently than domestic terrorism. Since violence is often associated with them people are more likely to see them as the face of terror as opposed to a white American person.

Feagin, Joe R. 2011. Racial and Ethnic Relations. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.