Mika’il Petin, formerly a professor of Cultural Studies at George Mason University, is now the associate Dean of Student Success at Illinois College. He has focused heavily on the representation of black muslim males in media in the post-9/11 era. We use part of his thesis work, concerning the film Five Fingers, to launch a discussion about representation and the interplay of of religious, racial and other factors in how we tell stories.
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