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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilman, Sander L., author.

Thomas, James M., 1982- author.

Series:

Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prejudices--Psychological aspects.

Prejudices.

Racism--Psychological aspects.

Racism.

Antisemitism--Psychological aspects.

Antisemitism.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

viii, 385 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479856121

1479856126

OCLC:

946161028