Reality TV
‘All-American Muslim’
The reality TV show “All-American Muslim” brought an Arab-American community in Dearborn to national attention long before the current wave of interest in the city’s electoral significance. It changed its participants’ lives, and sparked conversations that are still developing today.
“What Reality TV Says About Us” — with Danielle J. Lindemann
Sociologist Danielle J. Lindemann joined Riada Asimovic Akyol and explained how “nearly every aspect of life is touched on in reality TV in this kind of magnified form.” So, it can teach us about different inequalities that exist in our culture or social norms about gender, race, class and sexuality.