Of fear and strangers : a history of xenophobia /

"Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive, and a 'New Xenophobia' seems to have e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Makari, George (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Haven [2021]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1vmnqcv
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: out of Beirut
  • Part I: The origins of xenophobia. 1. In search of Xénos
  • 2. Avant la lettre, or the Black Legend
  • 3. The first xenophobes
  • 4. The Boxer Uprising
  • 5. Colonial panic
  • 6. Commence the unraveling
  • 7. Immigrant boomerang
  • 8. The road to genocide
  • Part II: Inside the xenophobic mind. 9. Little Albert and the wages of fear
  • 10. The invention of the stereotype
  • 11. Projection and the negative of love
  • 12. The enigma of the other
  • 13. Self estrangements
  • Part III: The return of the stranger. 14. Why we hate them
  • 15. The new xenophobia
  • Coda: in the Pyrenees.