Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

"Gilman and Thomas make their case methodically, with rigorous, far-reaching scholarship. They provide no easy answers but plenty of food for thought amid Americas current crisis in race relations." (Publishers Weekly) "Are Racists Crazy?Is a highly informative book that significantly contributes to a historical understanding of the connection between race and madness." (Patterns of Prejudice) "A tour d'horizon of the historical relationship among race, racism, and mental illness...A sharp contribution to a significant topic that continues to generate heated discussion and debate." (Kirkus) "Truly multidisciplinary, thisbook will be of interest to scholars and educators from a variety of social science disciplines." (Choice) "Gilman and Thomas make a major contribution to racial theory. They study the deep structures of racism, not only in plunder, privilege, and antipathy for the 'other,' but also in the scientific frameworks that seek to explain 'otherness,' sometimes affirming it, sometimes denying it. Locating racism within biopolitics, Are Racists Crazy? sheds new light on such varied matters as implicit bias and authoritarian populism. Most important, this book unveils the inescapable political connections between race and science." - Howard Winant,author of The New Politics Of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice "Sander Gilman and James Thomas have undertaken a weighty task; they have provided a framework that helps us to decipher the science behind race and racism. As provocative as the books title is, you will find ample evidence and persuasive arguments for why a reliance on medicalizing racism is not enough in our quest to not only understand it but also to eradicate racism." - Deirdre Cooper Owens,author of Medical Superbodies: Slavery, Immigration, and the Birth of American Gynecology "Sander Gilman and James Thomas have provided a unique intellectual and political history of racial theorizing and have generated a virtual & cognitive road map of how anti-Semitism as leitmotif has played such a powerful, even dominant role in the way scholars and researchers have approached the subject matter, whether in Europe, the United States, or South Africa. Few works even attempt to piece together so much material, while pulling a convincing thread through a sustained argument." - Troy Duster,author of Backdoor to Eugenics "Are Racists Crazy?makes a strong, richly documented historical case for medicalization." (Anti-Semitism Studies)