Nicholas Ensley Mitchell

On Bigotry (eBook, PDF)

Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

We like to believe that bigotry is a product of ignorance and that if we educate people enough, they will become immune to bigotry. But what if bigotry isn't a lack of education, but rather a moral code that people live by? What if bigotry is a common code of hate to which no community is immune? On Bigotry is a field guide for understanding how bigots think and teach others to think, how bigotry disguises itself, how bigotry teaches people to act politically, and, most importantly, what individuals and communities can do about it. This is an essential read for anyone interested in challenging the spread of bigotry in society, regardless of who engages in it and why.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765154977
• Artikelnr.: 75028243

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Ensley Mitchell is an essayist and assistant professor of curriculum studies, courtesy assistant professor of African and African American Studies, and affiliate of the LGBTQ+ Research and Advocacy Center at the University of Kansas.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: How Do Bigots Think about the World?
Lesson 1: Bigotry Makes You Immoral
Lesson 2: Bigotry Destroys a Person's Ability to Think
Lesson 3: All Forms of Bigotry are Intertwined
Part II: How Does Bigotry Teach People to Think?
Lesson 4: Bigotry is Taught
Lesson 5: Bigotry Always Seeks New Targets
Lesson 6: Bigotry is Paranoid and Lesson 7: Bigotry Makes You Violent
Part III: How Bigotry Disguises Itself
Lesson 8: Bigotry Presents Itself as Philosophy
Lesson 9: Bigotry Presents Itself as Concern
Lesson 10: Bigotry Presents Itself as Science
Part IV: How Does Bigotry Teach People to Act Politically?
Lesson 11: Bigotry Does Not Give Up Easily
Lesson 12: Bigots Will Take Advantage of Members of Their Targeted Groups
Who Advocate for Their Own Inferiority
Lesson 13: Bigotry Does Not Compromise
Lesson 14: Bigotry Demands Action from Bigots
Lesson 15: Bigotry Loves Moral Panics
Lesson 16: Bigots Want You to Think They are Unintelligent
Lesson 17: Bigotry Loves False Moral Equivalence
Lesson 18: Bigots Always Claim that They are the Real Victims
Lesson 19: Bigotry Gaslights Everyone
Lesson 20: Bigotry Cannot be Disproven
Conclusion: The World is a Punk Bar
Index
About the Author