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.