Student Presentation VPAB07 Equity and Diversity in Arts Organizations University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)

1. Racial Stereotypes Through Hollywood Films

2. The Middle East

3. All Arabs Are Muslims All Muslims Are Arabs

7. “ Arab men desire American women” (Cairo Time)

8. According to Said, Orientalism (at least the Orientalism associated with Islam and the Middle East) rests on four general assumptions. First,Orientalism is based on "an imaginative and yet drastically polarized geography dividing the world into two unequal parts, the larger, ’different’ one called the Orient, the other, also known as ’our’ world, called the Occident or the West”. Consequently, the Orient has been regarded, “as if it were one monolithic thing”,which, furthermore, has been associated with, “a very special hostility and fear”. This has resulted in a binary analytical approach that reduces the diversity of the Middle East to, “a special malevolent and unthinking essence. Instead of analysis and understanding as a result, there can be for the most part only the crudest form of us-versus-them”. Finally, as a consequence of this essentializing approach, Orientalism is marked by a tendency to leap from "abstraction to a hugely complex reality”. (The Middle East As Narrative Space, Cultural Stereotype in Hollywood and Art Cinema. The Danish Institute of Damascus.)

9. THE “BROWN” RACE

19. Asian Stereotypes Exploring Chinese and Japanese stereotypes in Hollywood movies