Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity - Couverture souple

Gilman, Sander L.; Thomas, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1479887307 ISBN 13 : 9781479887309

Editeur : New York University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness
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, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century 'Sciences of Man' - including anthropology, medicine, and biology - used race as a means of defining psychopathology and how assertions about race and madness became embedded within disciplines that deal with mental health and illness.

An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse on racism, antisemitism, and psychopathology, Are Racists Crazy? connects past and present claims about race and racism, showing the dangerous implications of this specious line of thought for today.

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À propos des auteurs

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, as well as Professor of Psychiatry, at Emory University. He is the author or editor of more than ninety books, including the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane.

James Thomas is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi. He is the author of
Diversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities (Rutgers, 2020) and co-author of Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity (NYU, 2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479887307
• ISBN 13: 9781479887309
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible