Ioanide, Paula,

The emotional politics of racism : how feelings trump facts in an era of colorblindness / Paula Ioanide. - xiii, 271 pages ; 24 cm. - Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : facts and evidence don't work here -- Criminals and terrorists : the emotional economies of military-carceral expansion -- New York, New York : the raging emotions of white police brutality -- Abu Ghraib, Iraq : the evasive emotions of U.S. exceptionalism -- Welfare dependents and illegal aliens : the emotional economies of social wage retrenchment -- New Orleans, Louisiana : the demolishing emotions of neoliberal removal -- Escondido, California : the exclusionary emotions of nativist movements -- Epilogue : the other side of social death.

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Racism--Psychological aspects.--United States
Social psychology--United States.


United States--Social policy.
United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

E 184 .A1 / .I685 2015