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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 04 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Paul Heitsch. |
| Summary |
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. In this groundbreaking work, the author investigates these forces alongside 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. In the end, Of Fear and Strangers pulls together the most critical contributions, to help us comprehend the "New Xenophobia" we now face. "With penetrating insight, he reveals the history of a grave weakness that is one of the wildest threats against coherent democracy and human kindness." "[A] historical investigation of how the hatred of others blights society…The author focuses less on its origins than on when the concept was labeled 'phobic'-that is, when it became widely condemned…A timely and thorough investigation of a cultural plague." "Makari makes an airtight case that an enhanced understanding of the concept 'xenophobia' can serve as a skeleton key that will help unlock many of the psychic terrors currently haunting our cognitive processes and social worlds." "Elegantly written, erudite, and often intriguing.", "Examines xenophobia from ancient times to the present…as he moves toward his goal of analyzing the use of the word 'xenophobia' in today's public life." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Xenophobia -- History.
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Ethnic relations -- History.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History.
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Discrimination -- History.
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Nationalism -- History.
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Heitsch, Paul, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
History of xenophobia |
| ISBN |
9798200715756 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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8200715752 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14964594 |
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