On inhumanity : dehumanization and how to resist it /

"The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again-that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, David Livingstone, 1953- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Humanity > Psychological aspects. Cruelty. Hate. Toleration. Hate Humanité (Morale) > Aspect psychologique. Cruauté. Haine. hate. Ethics & Moral Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY. Mind & Body. Political. Cruelty Toleration Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Why dehumanization matters
Defining dehumanization
Holocaust
Lynching
How we do race
Racism
Race science
Essence
From Barbados to Nazi Germany
Which lives matter?
The act of killing
Morality
Self-engineering
Ideology
The politics of the human
Dangerous speech
Illusion
Genocide
Contradiction
Impurity
Monsters
Criminals
Cruelty
Dehumanization and its neighbors
Resisting.