Historicizing fear : ignorance, vilification, and othering / edited by Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu.
Material type: TextPublisher: Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (vi, 221 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781646420025
- 1646420020
- 9781646420032
- 1646420039
- 1607328135
- 9781607328131
- 1646420012
- 9781646420018
- Fear -- Political aspects -- History
- Fear -- Social aspects -- History
- Political persecution -- Psychological aspects -- History
- Peur -- Aspect politique -- Histoire
- Peur -- Aspect social -- Histoire
- RĂ©pression politique -- Aspect psychologique -- Histoire
- HISTORY / General
- Fear -- Political aspects
- Fear -- Social aspects
- Political persecution -- Psychological aspects
- BF575.F2
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 political gain"-- Provided by publisher.
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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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