Stigma Consciousness and American Identity: The Case of Muslims in the United States

Sediqe, Nura A.

doi:10.1017/s104909652000075x

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“…The dissemination of political information on social media platforms has been undoubtedly consequential for members of stigmatised groups, and Muslim Americans are no exception (Dana et al 2018;Karam 2020;Lajevardi et al 2020;Ocampo et al 2018;Sediqe 2020). A rising tide of information about race in American politics can be found on social media platforms, particularly since the 2016 presidential campaign.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Anti-Muslim stereotypes propagated via the media tap into an enduring, racialised schema that westerners hold about Islam. Islamic cultural and religious values are stigmatised (Sediqe 2020) and have been characterised as anti-democratic and at odds with the American way of life (Brooke et al 2022;Jamal 2009;Kalkan et al 2009;. Because of media portrayals of the role of Islam in promoting terrorism, Muslim men have been typecast as inherently violent (Saleem and Anderson 2013).…”

Section: Stereotyping Muslims In the Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hate, amplified? Social media news consumption and support for anti-Muslim policies

2022

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Research finds that social media platforms’ peer-to-peer structures shape the public discourse and increase citizens’ likelihood of exposure to unregulated, false, and prejudicial content. Here, we test whether self-reported reliance on social media as a primary news source is linked to racialised policy support, taking the case of United States Muslims, a publicly visible but understudied group about whom significant false and prejudicial content is abundant on these platforms. Drawing on three original surveys and the Nationscape dataset, we find a strong and consistent association between reliance on social media and support for a range of anti-Muslim policies. Importantly, reliance on social media is linked to policy attitudes across the partisan divide and for individuals who reported holding positive or negative feelings towards Muslims. These findings highlight the need for further investigation into the political ramification of information presented on contemporary social media outlets, particularly information related to stigmatised groups.

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Section: Stereotyping Muslims In the Mediamentioning

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Hate, amplified? Social media news consumption and support for anti-Muslim policies

2022

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“…But, even with new data and a broadened analytic lens, investigating the relationship between an increase in inflammatory rhetoric and an increase in hate remains challenging. Governmental hate crime data in particular relies on voluntary reporting (Freilich and Chermak 2013) (Samari 2016;Samari et al 2020;Sediqe 2020) that are unlikely to suddenly disappear. Instead, we might expect chilling effects on reporting, where targeted groups are suddenly afraid to report, though we can address this particular artifact by assessing reports from both advocacy organizations and government sources concurrently.…”

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Group Salience, Inflammatory Rhetoric, and the Persistence of Hate Against Religious Minorities

Hobbs

Lajevardi

Lucas

2021

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Recorded hate crimes surged at several points during and after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Observers argued that hate crimes, especially against Muslims, increased due to inflammatory rhetoric. Did anti-Muslim hate crimes decline after the salience of Muslims and accompanying inflammatory rhetoric receded? Or did emboldening and organizational effects on hate crimes endure? Using data sources on online discussions (4chan, Gab, Reddit), media coverage (newspapers, Google Trends), and hate crime databases (ADL, CAIR, FBI), we show that a sudden mid-2017 decline in media discussion of Muslims and in online communities was associated with a large and sustained drop in anti-Muslim hate. At nearly the same time as these shifts, however, we observe evidence of an increase in violent hate crimes committed against Jews, and Granger causality tests demonstrate that week-to-week changes in online extremist speech targeting one group versus another also predicted subsequent shifts in hate crimes and bias incidents. Platform-level and within-individual analyses of online social media users suggest that increased anti-Jewish speech was partly driven by far-right communities and extremists who previously promoted anti-Muslim speech.

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“…Our decision to include Muslim Americans stems from their increased visibility in the American public as a marginalized, salient, and increasingly racialized group over the past two decades. Studies affirm this racialization (Aziz, 2021;Kalkan, Layman and Uslaner, 2009;Lajevardi, 2020Lajevardi, , 2021Nacos and Torres-Reyna, 2007;Nguyen, 2019;Oskooii, 2016;Oskooii, Dana and Barreto, 2019;Sediqe, 2020;Yazdiha, 2023). Though U.S. Muslims are often conflated with MENA (Middle East and North African) Americans, it is crucial to appreciate that the global Muslim community is incredibly diverse, spanning various ethnic, racial, national origin, and cultural backgrounds.…”

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Context, Contact, and Misinformation about Socially Marginalized Groups in the United States

Abrajano,

Lajevardi,

Uribe

2024

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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How does context influence individuals’ misinformation about socially marginalized groups? Scholarship has long found that one’s geographical and social environment are important determinants for one’s political attitudes. But how these contexts shape individuals’ levels of misinformation about stigmatized groups remains an open and pressing question, especially given the swift rise of misinformation in recent years. Using three original surveys, we find that individuals who report more contact with a diverse group of individuals were significantly less likely to be misinformed. These findings are particularly pronounced among white Americans. Moreover, contrary to the popular belief that where one lives is a strong determinant of racial attitudes, we also find that partisan and racial context did not meaningfully shape misinformation. These findings shed light on the factors that helps us to understand the misinformation that exists about this sizable share of U.S. society.

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Stigma Consciousness and American Identity: The Case of Muslims in the United States

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Hate, amplified? Social media news consumption and support for anti-Muslim policies

Hate, amplified? Social media news consumption and support for anti-Muslim policies

Group Salience, Inflammatory Rhetoric, and the Persistence of Hate Against Religious Minorities

Context, Contact, and Misinformation about Socially Marginalized Groups in the United States

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