Are racists crazy?
Subtitle: how prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity
By: Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas
Contributors: Thomas, James M., 1982- author
Series: Biopolitics: medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century; Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781479856121
Subjects: Mental illness; Antisemitism; Racism; Prejudices; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Psychopathology and difference from the nineteenth century to the present; title: The long, slow burn from pathological accounts of race to racial attitudes as pathological; title: Hatred and the crowd: World War I and the rise of a psychology of racism; title: The Holocaust and post-war theories of antisemitism and racism; title: Race and madness in mid-twentieth-century America and beyond; title: The modern pathologization of racism; title: Conclusion: the specter of science in twenty-first-century racial discourse.