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02541aam a2200349 i 4500 001 5F6C0D02300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220909010236 008 191023s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019048933 020 $a 0190923008 020 $a 9780190923006 035 $a (OCoLC)1121082575 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d MUO $d KAY $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HM1131 $b .S653 2020 082 00 $a 179/.9 $2 23 100 1 $a Smith, David Livingstone, $d 1953- $e author. $9 807788 245 10 $a On inhumanity : $b dehumanization and how to resist it / David Livingstone Smith. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a ix, 222 pages ; $c 19 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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 human psyche-deeper than prejudice itself-leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization, or the human propensity to think of others as less than human. This book looks at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human. There is something peculiar and horrifying in human psychology that makes us vulnerable to thinking of whole groups of people as subhuman creatures. When governments or other groups stand to gain by exploiting this innate propensity, and know just how to manipulate words and images to trigger it, there is no limit to the violence and hatred that can result"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Humanity $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Cruelty. $9 387451 650 0 $a Hate. $9 21396 650 0 $a Toleration. $9 20757 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909062205.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5F6C0D02300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search