Are racists crazy? : how prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity

Author

Sander L Gilman

Call Number

• 305.8 G487 (CEN)

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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.