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Are Racists Crazy? - How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity (Paperback)
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Are Racists Crazy? - How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity (Paperback)
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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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