Historicizing fear : ignorance, vilification, and othering / edited by Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu

Includes bibliographical references and index

“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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher