Historicizing Fear :   Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering /  
edited by Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu. 
 - 1 online resource (240 pages). 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781646420025 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political persecution--Psychological aspects.<br/>Fear--Social aspects.<br/>Fear--Political aspects.<br/>HISTORY / General<br/>Repression politique--Aspect psychologique--Histoire.<br/>Peur--Aspect social--Histoire.<br/>Peur--Aspect politique--Histoire.<br/>Political persecution--Psychological aspects--History.<br/>Fear--Social aspects--History.<br/>Fear--Political aspects--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.