Critical Folkloristics, Free Speech, and the “War on Terror”
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In 2008, five affiliates of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) were convicted of conspiring to supply “material support” to the terrorist organization Hamas. One of the convicted was a folksinger, included in the indictment due to a series of music performances given at HLF fundraisers. In this article, I critically interrogate the history and development of the HLF trial, arguing for the development of an activist-oriented critical folkloristics as a powerful tool with which to respond to Islamophobic discourses at the heart of the American “War on Terror.”
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This record is for a(n) offprint of an article published in Journal of American Folklore on 2020-09-01.
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Social activism, critical theory, public folklore, Islamophobia, humanitarian assistance
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McDonald, David A. "Critical Folkloristics, Free Speech, and the “War on Terror”." Journal of American Folklore, vol. 133, no. 530, pp. 392-411, 2020-09-01.
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Journal of American Folklore