Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Gilman, Sander L.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

Thomas, James M., 1982-

Description

viii, 385 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)

Subjects

• Racism > Psychological aspects
• Mental illness
• Antisemitism > Psychological aspects
• Prejudices > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-359) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 17-6063

ISBN

• 9781479856121 (cl : alk. paper)
• 1479856126 (cl : alk. paper)

LCCN

2016023905

OCLC

946161028

Author

Gilman, Sander L., author.

Title

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

Publisher

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

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

Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-359) and index.

Added Author

Thomas, James M., 1982- author.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6063