Are racists crazy? : how prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity / Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas.
| Author/creator | Gilman, Sander L. author. |
| Other author | Thomas, James M., 1982- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : New York University Press, [2016] |
| Description | viii, 385 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Biopolitics: medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.) ^A1030868 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2016023905 |
| ISBN | 9781479856121 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1479856126 hardcover alkaline paper |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BF575 .P9 G55 2016 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |