Are Racists Crazy? : : how Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity
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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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Biopolitics
PUBLISHED
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: viii, 385 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781479856121
1479856126
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Thomas, James M., 1982-
SUBJECTS
Prejudices -- Psychological aspects.
Racism -- Psychological aspects.
Antisemitism -- Psychological aspects.
Mental illness.