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Less than human : why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others / David Livingstone Smith.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-316) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgments -- Preface: Creatures of a kind somewhat inferior -- Less than human -- Steps toward a theory of dehumanization -- Caliban's children -- The rhetoric of enmity -- Learning from genocide -- Race -- The cruel animal -- Ambivalence and transgression -- Questions for a theory of dehumanization -- Appendix I: Psychological essentialism -- Appendix II: Paul Roscoe's theory of dehumanization in war -- Notes -- Index.
Summary, etc.:	An analysis of the ways in which the human race regards its fellow members as less than human in order to rationalize genocide, slavery, and other violations draws on studies from a range of disciplines to explain how biological discriminatory traits canbe overcome.