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

Smith, David Livingstone, 1953- (author.).

Summary:

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.

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  • ISBN: 9781250003836 (paperback) :
  • Physical Description: viii, 326 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2012].

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General Note:
Please contact Shawna Mazur at shawna_mazur@nps.gov (734-243-7136) to access the River Raisin National Battlefield Park Special Collection.
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.

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Subject: Humanity > Psychological aspects.
Social isolation.
Marginality, Social.
Social status.
Genre: Nonfiction books.

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