Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering /

Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering /

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"A historical interrogation from a global perspective of the use of fear to vilify and persecute groups and individuals. Offering a look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization, and how 'the Other' is defined and how fear is reinforced, spread, and used for politic...

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Other Authors: Chunnu, Winsome M. (Editor), Boyce, Travis D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political persecution > Psychological aspects.
Fear > Social aspects.
Fear > Political aspects.
HISTORY / General
Repression politique > Aspect psychologique > Histoire.
Peur > Aspect social > Histoire.
Peur > Aspect politique > Histoire.
Political persecution > Psychological aspects > History.
Fear > Social aspects > History.
Fear > Political aspects > History.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Defining the "Other"/ Pathologizing Differences
  • 1."Up to No Good": The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Fear of Black Men in US Society / Henry Santos Metcalf
  • 2.Southern Perils: Chinese Views of Their Southern Territories during the Tang Dynasty (618
  • 907 CE) / Adam C. Fong
  • 3.Microbe Culture: Germ Politics and the Unseen Racial History of Nature / Melanie Armstrong
  • Reinforcing or Spreading Fear of the "Other"
  • 4."They'll Take Away Our Birthrights": How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction / Kirs ten Dyck
  • 5."... or Suffer the Consequences of Staying": Terror and Racial Cleansing in Arkansas / Guy Lancaster
  • 6.Making "The Case against the `Reds'": Racializing Communism, 1919
  • 1920 / Julie M. Powell
  • 7.Toward a Post-Racial Society, or a "Rebirth" of a Nation? White Anxiety and Fear of Black Equality in the United States / Winsome M. Chunnu
  • How Fear, Once Created and Spread, Is Used for Political Ends
  • 8.A Pharmacological Gulf of Tonkin: The Myth of the Addicted Army in Vietnam and the Fear of a Junkie Veteran / Lukasz Kamienski
  • 9.The Strategies of Fear, the Commercialization of Society, and the Rise of the Factory System in the Low Countries during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Brecht De Smet
  • 10.Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Minors: Anti-Radicalism and the Jewish Left / Jeffrey A. Johnson.

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