Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear
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Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear

Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear

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Peter Rose (Author)  

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Tropes of Intolerance is a Baedeker of bigotry, a short course on xenophobic racism and populist nationalism - both enduring threats to the social fabric of democratic societies. Each chapter is a self-contained commentary and a building block. In the first, the author considers the concepts of pride and prejudice and discusses patterns of discrimination and strategies of resistance. This is following by an illustrated consideration of the emblems of enmity - words, signs, symbols and other verbal and visual expressions of both chauvinism and intolerance. Linking the first two, the third chapter explores the nature of American Nativism and its contemporary expression. This is followed by an assessment of the exploitation of anxiety among particularly vulnerable sectors of society by skillful, manipulative leaders and their agents and the exacerbation of social divisions by the use of stereotyping, stigmatizing, and labeling. Chapter Five, "Trumped Up," narrows the focus to the present day, the president himself, and his exacerbation of polarizing particularism. A sixth chapter examines two of the most malignant ideologies -- resurgent anti-Semitism and the rise of Islamophobia -- bringing readers full circle. In addition to a brief Coda and a glossary of key terms related to the principal topic, there is a post-election Afterword written in late November, 2020.
The author, sociologist and ethnographer Peter I. Rose, is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus at Smith College and a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Institute for Research in Social Science. Among his other books on race, ethnicity, immigration and the dilemmas of diversity are They and We, The Ghetto and Beyond, The Subject is Race, Strangers in Their Midst, Americans from Africa, Tempest-Tost, The Dispossessed, and Mainstream and Margins Revisited: Sixty Years of Commentary on American Minorities.
  • Contributor: Peter Rose
  • Imprint: Routledge
  • ISBN13: 9780367274900
  • Number of Pages: 182
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Packaged Weight: 453
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Release Date: 2020-12-31
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: The author, sociologist and ethnographer Peter I. Rose, is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus at Smith College and a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Institute for Research in Social Science. Among his other books on race, ethnicity, immigration and the dilemmas of diversity are They and We, The Ghetto and Beyond, The Subject is Race, Strangers in Their Midst, Americans from Africa, Tempest-Tost, The Dispossessed, and Mainstream and Margins Revisited: Sixty Years of Commentary on American Minorities.

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