Are racists crazy? : how prejudice, racism, and antisemitism became markers of insanity / Sander L. Gilman and James M. Thomas.
"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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[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.