Bibliograph

Are racists crazy?, how prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity, Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas

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Are racists crazy?, how prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity, Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Are racists crazy?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

946161028

Responsibility statement

Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas

Series statement

Biopolitics: medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century

Sub title

how prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Psychopathology and difference from the nineteenth century to the present -- The long, slow burn from pathological accounts of race to racial attitudes as pathological -- Hatred and the crowd: World War I and the rise of a psychology of racism -- The Holocaust and post-war theories of antisemitism and racism -- Race and madness in mid-twentieth-century America and beyond -- The modern pathologization of racism -- Conclusion: the specter of science in twenty-first-century racial discourse

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