Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Psychopathology and Difference from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

2. The Long, Slow Burn from Pathological Accounts of Race to Racial Attitudes as Pathological

3. Hatred and the Crowd: World War I and the Rise of a Psychology of Racism

4. The Holocaust and Post-War Theories of Antisemitism and Racism

5. Race and Madness in Mid-Twentieth-Century America and Beyond

6. The Modern Pathologization of Racism

Conclusion: The Specter of Science in Twenty-First-Century Racial Discourse

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors