Historicizing Fear : : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering.

• Author: Boyce, Travis D.
• TeilnehmendeR: Chunnu, Winsome M.
• Place / Publishing House: Chicago : : University Press of Colorado,, 2020.; Ã2019.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- "I Want to Get Rid of My Fear"An Introduction -- DEFINING THE "OTHER"/PATHOLOGIZING DIFFERENCES -- 1. "Up to No Good" The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Fear of Black Men in US Society -- 2. Southern Perils Chinese Views of Their Southern Territories during the Tang Dynasty (618-907ce) -- 3. Microbe Culture Germ Politics and the Unseen Racial History of Nature -- Reinforcing or Spreading Fear of the "Other" -- 4. "They'll Take Away Our Birthrights" How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction -- 5. ". . . or Suffer the Consequences of Staying"Terror and Racial Cleansing in Arkansas -- 6. Making "The Case against the 'Reds' "Racializing Communism, 1919-1920 -- 7. Toward a Post-Racial Society, or a "Rebirth" of a Nation? White Anxiety and Fear of Black Equality in the United States -- 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 -- 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 -- 10. Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Minors Anti-Radicalism and the Jewish Left -- About the Contributors -- Index.