Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

Are Racists Crazy?

How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

2016 • 393 pages

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


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Biopolitics is a 8-book series with 8 released primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Joan B. Wolf, Thomas Lemke, and Lisa Moore.


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