Contents
“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
About the Contributors
Index