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

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Gilman, Sander L. (Autor), Thomas, James M., 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Colección:Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.