Of Fear And Strangers A History Of Xenophobia
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Of Fear And Strangers A History Of Xenophobia
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Author : George Makari
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2021-09-14
Of Fear And Strangers A History Of Xenophobia written by George Makari and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the International Psychoanalytical Association's 2023 Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award A Bloomberg Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 A startling work of historical sleuthing and synthesis, Of Fear and Strangers reveals the forgotten histories of xenophobia—and what they mean for us today. By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea’s origins. To his astonishment, he discovered an unfolding series of never-told stories. While a fear and hatred of strangers may be ancient, he found that the notion of a dangerous bias called "xenophobia" arose not so long ago. Coined by late-nineteenth-century doctors and political commentators and popularized by an eccentric stenographer, xenophobia emerged alongside Western nationalism, colonialism, mass migration, and genocide. Makari chronicles the concept’s rise, from its popularization and perverse misuse to its spread as an ethical principle in the wake of a series of calamites that culminated in the Holocaust, and its sudden reappearance in the twenty-first century. He investigates xenophobia’s evolution through the writings of figures such as Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus, and Richard Wright, and innovators like Walter Lippmann, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Frantz Fanon. Weaving together history, philosophy, and psychology, Makari offers insights into varied, related ideas such as the conditioned response, the stereotype, projection, the Authoritarian Personality, the Other, and institutional bias. Masterful, original, and elegantly written, Of Fear and Strangers offers us a unifying paradigm by which we might more clearly comprehend how irrational anxiety and contests over identity sweep up groups and lead to the dark headlines of division so prevalent today.
Strangers In The Land
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Author : John Higham
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2002
Strangers In The Land written by John Higham and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
"This book attempts a general history of the anti-foreign spirit that I have defined as nativism. It tries to show how American nativism evolved its own distinctive patterns, how it has ebbed and flowed under the pressure of successive impulses in American history, how it has fared at every social level and in every section where it left a mark, and how it has passed into action. Fundamentally, this remains a study of public opinion, but I have sought to follow the movement of opinion wherever it led, relating it to political pressures, social organization, economic changes, and intellectual interests."--from the Preface, taken from back cover.
I Know Who Caused Covid 19
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Author : Zhou Xun
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2021-09-14
I Know Who Caused Covid 19 written by Zhou Xun and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with Health & Fitness categories.
Fear has consequences, for individuals and for communities. And in times of stress, such as during epidemics, prejudices and primeval fear, always beneath the surface, can resurge to haunt us. In this book Zhou Xun and Sander L. Gilman examine how four groups have been blamed for causing or spreading the COVID-19 virus: the residents of Wuhan and Black African communities in China; Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the USA, Britain and Israel; African Americans and the UK's BAME communities; and White right-wing groups in America and Europe. 'I Know Who Caused COVID-19' explores stereotyping and the false attribution of blame, as well as what happens when a collective is actually at fault, and how the community deals with these conflicting issues.--
Strangers At Our Door
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Author : Zygmunt Bauman
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2016-05-31
Strangers At Our Door written by Zygmunt Bauman and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-31 with Social Science categories.
Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society. In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short, the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread, especially among those who have already lost so much - the disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.
Racism Postcolonialism Europe
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Author : Graham Huggan
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Racism Postcolonialism Europe written by Graham Huggan and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Social Science categories.
This multidisciplinary edited collection turns the postcolonial critical gaze back on Europe itself, arguing that racism is alive and dangerously well and examining a variety of postcolonial criticism in order to understand a variety of racisms: those of false respect, reaction, and surveillance. Racism Postcolonialism Europe wisely suggests that all of these forms of postcolonial racism occur under the guise of representing the interests of the European people— which is a very different entity than the European population as a whole. This volume—which includes contributions from Griselda Pollock, Michel Wieviorka, and Philomena Essed—will be required reading for scholars and students of race, postcolonial studies, sociology, and cultural studies alike.
The New Xenophobia
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Author : Tabish Khair
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2016
The New Xenophobia written by Tabish Khair and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Capitalism categories.
Xenophobia, the fear or dislike of strangers, can be seen throughout the course of history in the form of communal riots, racist attacks, religious hatred, and genocide. HinduMuslim riots in India, SinhaleseTamil tensions in Sri Lanka, ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia, purging of Shias and Sunnis in Iraq and Syria, skinheads attacking immigrants, and the Jewish holocaust in Europe are a few examples. In The New Xenophobia, Tabish Khair studies this fear in a historical, philosophical, and socio-economic context. Tracing the changes in xenophobic thinking over the past three decades, he examines the unexplored relationship of xenophobia with power and capitalism and shows how changes in capitalism have altered the image of the stranger. Through his study, Khair provides new insights into racism and slavery, and fresh perspectives on the rise of ethnic, cultural, and religious politics in todays age of globalization.
Strangers At The Gate
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Author : Frederic Wakeman
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1997-12-30
Strangers At The Gate written by Frederic Wakeman and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-30 with History categories.
First published in 1966, and now available once more, this pioneering work examines the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion--one of the most calamitous events in Chinese history. The book explores the various factors that led to the progression of rebellion and the inevitability of revolution.
Not Fit For Our Society
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Author : Peter Schrag
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2010
Not Fit For Our Society written by Peter Schrag and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Family & Relationships categories.
In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over the same questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship. He finds that nativism has long colored our national history, and that the fear—and loathing—of newcomers has provided one of the faultlines of American cultural and political life. Schrag describes the eerie similarities between the race-based arguments for restricting Irish, German, Slav, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese immigrants in the past and the arguments for restricting Latinos and others today. He links the terrible history of eugenic "science" to ideas, individuals, and groups now at the forefront of the fight against rational immigration policies. Not Fit for Our Society makes a powerful case for understanding the complex, often paradoxical history of immigration restriction as we work through the issues that inform, and often distort, the debate over who can become a citizen, who decides, and on what basis.
A Dictionary Of Human Geography
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Author : Noel Castree
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013-04-25
A Dictionary Of Human Geography written by Noel Castree and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with Reference categories.
This new dictionary provides over 2,000 clear and concise entries on human geography, covering basic terms and concepts as well as biographies, organisations, and major periods and schools. Authoritative and accessible, this is a must-have for every student of human geography, as well as for professionals and interested members of the public.
America For Americans
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Author : Erika Lee
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2019-11-26
America For Americans written by Erika Lee and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with History categories.
This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported. Today, Americans fear Muslims, Latinos, and the so-called browning of America. Forcing us to confront this history, Lee explains how xenophobia works, why it has endured, and how it threatens America. Now updated with an afterword reflecting on how the coronavirus pandemic turbocharged xenophobia, America for Americans is an urgent spur to action for any concerned citizen.