Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, And Antisemitism Became Markers Of Insanity (Biopolitics, 11)

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

• | Author: Sander L. Gilman|James Thomas
• | Publisher: NYU Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Psychology
• | ISBN-10: 1479856126
• | ISBN-13: 9781479856121