Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-359) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Are racists crazy?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

946161028

Responsibility statement

Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas

Series statement

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

Sub title

how prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity

Summary

"In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that -- based on their clinical experiment -- the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories, from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century 'Sciences of Man' -- including anthropology, medicine, and biology -- used race as a means of defining psychopathology and how assertions about race and madness became embedded within disciplines that deal with mental health and illness. An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse on racism, antisemitism, and psychopathology, Are Racists Crazy? connects past and present claims about race and racism, showing the dangerous implications of this specious line of thought for today"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

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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How prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity

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