{"product_id":"are-racists-crazy-how-prejudice-racism-and-antisemitism-became-markers-of-insanity-9781479887309","title":"Are Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sander L. Gilman,James Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479887309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGilman, Sander L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eSander L. Gilman\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJames Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Mississippi. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDiversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities\u003c\/i\u003e (Rutgers, 2020) and co-author of \u003ci\u003eAre Racists Crazy?: How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity\u003c\/i\u003e (NYU, 2016).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45254396084339,"sku":"9781479887309","price":52.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_150d5b69-5d52-4a51-b7e2-3d0ac41f9ef0.jpg?v=1784203945","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/are-racists-crazy-how-prejudice-racism-and-antisemitism-became-markers-of-insanity-9781479887309","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}