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Title Historicizing fear : ignorance, vilification, and othering / edited by Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu
Published Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 221 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Fear -- Political aspects -- History
Fear -- Social aspects -- History
Political persecution -- Psychological aspects -- History
HISTORY / General
Fear -- Political aspects
Fear -- Social aspects
Political persecution -- Psychological aspects
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Boyce, Travis D., editor
Chunnu, Winsome M., editor
LC no. 2019035865
ISBN 9781646420025
1646420020
9781646420032
1646420039
1607328135
9781607328131
1646420012
9781646420018