‘I know who caused COVID-19’ : pandemics and xenophobia / Xun Zhou, Sander L Gilman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhou, Xun, 1968- author.

Gilman, Sander L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects.

COVID-19 (Disease).

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Xenophobia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2021.

Summary:

A timely exploration of the global explosion in xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic.   Through a close analysis of four cases from around the world, this book explores prejudice toward groups who are thought to have caused and spread COVID-19: the residents of Wuhan and Black African communities in China; ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel; African-Americans in the United States and Black/Asian/mixed ethnic communities in the United Kingdom; and White right-wing groups in the United States and Europe. The authors examine stereotyping and the false attribution of blame towards these groups, as well as what happens when a collective is actually at fault, and how the community deals with these conflicting issues.   This is a timely, cogent examination of the blame and xenophobia that have been brought to the surface by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Contents:

Xenophobia and COVID-19

China, Wuhan and race

COVID -19 in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities

Anxiety in the African American and BAME communities

Trump as symbol: anger within and against ‘White’ communities

Marginality and disease.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-252).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78914-508-2

OCLC:

1581933261