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UNINA9910377436303321 |
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Titolo |
Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering / / edited by Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu |
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Louisville : , : University Press of Colorado, , [2019] |
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©[2019] |
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ISBN |
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1-64642-003-9 |
1-64642-002-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political persecution - Psychological aspects - History |
Fear - Social aspects - History |
Fear - Political aspects - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- "I Want to Get Rid of My Fear"An Introduction -- DEFINING THE "OTHER"/PATHOLOGIZING DIFFERENCES -- 1. "Up to No Good" The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Fear of Black Men in US Society -- 2. Southern Perils Chinese Views of Their Southern Territories during the Tang Dynasty (618-907ce) -- 3. Microbe Culture Germ Politics and the Unseen Racial History of Nature -- Reinforcing or Spreading Fear of the "Other" -- 4. "They'll Take Away Our Birthrights" How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction -- 5. ". . . or Suffer the Consequences of Staying"Terror and Racial Cleansing in Arkansas -- 6. Making "The Case against the 'Reds' "Racializing Communism, 1919-1920 -- 7. Toward a Post-Racial Society, or a "Rebirth" of a Nation? White Anxiety and Fear of Black Equality in the United States -- 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 -- 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 -- 10. Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Minors Anti- |
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Radicalism and the Jewish Left -- About the Contributors -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 political gain"-- |
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