Description |
1 online resource (vi, 221 pages) |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
computer n rdamedia |
|
online resource nc rdacarrier |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"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. |
Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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. |
Subject |
Fear -- Political aspects -- History.
|
|
Fear -- Social aspects -- History.
|
|
Political persecution -- Psychological aspects -- History.
|
|
Peur -- Aspect politique -- Histoire.
|
|
Peur -- Aspect social -- Histoire.
|
|
Répression politique -- Aspect psychologique -- Histoire.
|
|
HISTORY / General
|
|
Fear -- Political aspects
|
|
Fear -- Social aspects
|
|
Political persecution -- Psychological aspects
|
Genre/Form |
History
|
Added Author |
Boyce, Travis D., editor.
|
|
Chunnu, Winsome M., editor.
|
Other Form: |
Print version: Historicizing fear Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2019] 9781607328131 (DLC) 2019035864 |
ISBN |
9781646420025 (open-access PDF) |
|
1646420020 |
|
9781646420032 (open-access ePUB) |
|
1646420039 |
|
9781607328131 (cloth) |
|
9781646420018 (paperback) |
|
1607328135 |
|
9781607328131 |
|
1646420012 |
|
9781646420018 |
Standard No. |
AU@ 000066984900 |
|