Are Racists Crazy?
Author | : Sander L. Gilman |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2016-12-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781479856121 |
ISBN-13 | : 1479856126 |
Rating | : 4/5 (126 Downloads) |
Download or read book Are Racists Crazy? written by Sander L. Gilman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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