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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert M Baird; Stuart E Rosenbaum |
| ISBN: | 1573927481 9781573927482 |
| OCLC Number: | 41880318 |
| Description: | 290 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Creative democracy : the task before us / John Dewey -- Hate of the union : why homophobia has become America's favorite pastime / Michael Musto -- Blight to life : antiabortion extremists and another murdered doctor / Sharon Lerner -- Firestarters : my journey to Jasper / David Grann -- School's been blown to pieces : everyday terror in the suburbs south of Denver / Frank Kogan -- Matthew's passion / Tony Kushner -- R.A.V., petitioner v. City of St. Paul, Minnesota -- The hate debate / New republic editorial -- Canon to the ordinary / Patricia J. Williams -- Civility without censorship : the ethics of the Internet : cyberhate / Raymond W. Smith -- Equality / Abraham Kaplan -- The nature of hatred / Gordon Allport -- The portrait of the anti-Semite / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of difference / Paula Rothenberg -- The causes of prejudice / Elliot Aronson -- The biology of nepotism / Pierre van den Berghe -- Prejudice and reason / Brice Wachterhauser -- Evolutionary morality and xenophobia / Edward O. Wilson -- The hate that makes men straight : psychoanalysts probe the roots of homophobia / Richard Golstein -- Is racial discrimination arbitrary? / Peter Singer -- Gay basics : some questions, facts, and values / Richard D. Mohr -- A classical case for gay studies / Martha Nussbaum -- Stateways can change folkways / Elliot Aronson -- Toward the elimination of racism : the study of intergroup behavior / Samuel L. Gaertner and John F. Dovidio -- The making of an American democratic socialist of African descent / Cornell West -- Human rights, rationality, and sentimentality / Richard Rorty -- An exercise in civility / Martin Marty. |
| Series Title: | Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.) |
| Responsibility: | edited by Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum. |
Abstract:
Many hate crimes such as an armed assault on a Jewish community centre in Los Angeles, have been linked to white supremacists and are painful reminders that violent bigotry remains stubbornly entrenched in American culture. This work features a collection of essays which explore the definitions, origins, and outcomes of intolerance in America.
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