Historicizing Fear Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering

"A historical interrogation from a global perspective of the use of fear to vilify and persecute groups and individuals. Offering a look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization, and how 'the Other' is defined and how fear is reinforced, spread, and used for politic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Chunnu, Winsome M., editor (editor), Boyce, Travis D., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Louisville : University Press of Colorado [2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • "I Want to Get Rid of My Fear"An Introduction
  • DEFINING THE "OTHER"/PATHOLOGIZING DIFFERENCES
  • 1. "Up to No Good" The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Fear of Black Men in US Society
  • 2. Southern Perils Chinese Views of Their Southern Territories during the Tang Dynasty (618-907ce)
  • 3. Microbe Culture Germ Politics and the Unseen Racial History of Nature
  • Reinforcing or Spreading Fear of the "Other"
  • 4. "They'll Take Away Our Birthrights" How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction
  • 5. ". . . or Suffer the Consequences of Staying"Terror and Racial Cleansing in Arkansas
  • 6. Making "The Case against the 'Reds' "Racializing Communism, 1919-1920
  • 7. Toward a Post-Racial Society, or a "Rebirth" of a Nation? White Anxiety and Fear of Black Equality in the United States
  • How Fear, Once Created and Spread,Is Used for Political Ends
  • 8. A Pharmacological Gulf of Tonkin The Myth of the Addicted Army in Vietnam and the Fear of a Junkie Veteran
  • 9. The Strategies of Fear, the Commercialization of Society, and the Rise of the Factory System in the Low Countries during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • 10. Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Minors Anti-Radicalism and the Jewish Left
  • About the Contributors
  • Index.