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Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Dominant Culture

A student has asked to collaborate with some research on the current dominant culture's enthusiastic and rewarded xenophobia. This is a topic we need to have on each college campus. Draft search: Overview of sociology and xenophobia: Kirik, Vladimir Alexandrovich, et al. "Conceptual and Methodological Research of Xenophobia in Social Sciences." Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences 6.4 (2015): 183. Love, Erik. "Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and Explaining Individual Attitudes." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 44.2 (2015): 213-215. Good reference to Edward Said's theory of orientalism Hassan, Ibrahim Haruna. "Orientalism and Islamism: A Comparative Study of Approaches to Islamic Studies." Arts Social Sci J 6.91 (2015): 2. and original from Said: Said, Edward.  Orientalism . New York: Penguin, 1995. Print. [I'll be very disappointed if the LSC Library doesn't have this.] America as a racist/xeno