Historical racism narratives frame US racism as exceptional and thereby minimize current anti-Arab racism

Evidence

Some post-9/11 dramas offer a revealing narrative about racism in U.S. history in order to assess anti-Arab racism. This narrative situates the United States as a nation of equality and freedom, a nation whose moments of racism are the exception rather than the norm. This framing tends to minimize the Arab and Muslim American plight even while representing it. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 436

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how the ‘America is exceptional; racism is the exception’ narrative works to dilute contemporary civil-rights claims across eras — usable as a media-criticism essay.
• XREF: connects to: National Geographic travel journalism was the leading channel imparting anti-Arab racism — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 216