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Title Historicizing fear : ignorance, vilification, and othering / edited by Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu.

Publication Info. Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 221 pages)
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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.
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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

 
    
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