Are racists crazy? : how prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity
Publication Information
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
viii, 385 pages ; 25 cm.
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.