Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence
Killing in the Name of Otherness
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Racial, Ethnic, and Homophobic Violence
Killing in the Name of Otherness
About this book
With contributions by internationally recognized specialists, this book, a perfect complement to courses in criminology and hate crime, provides a key resource for understanding how racism and homophobia work to produce violence.
Hate-motivated violence is now deemed a 'serious national problem' in most Western societies. With contributions by British, Australian, American, Canadian, Irish, Italian and French researchers, this book addresses a wide spectrum of types of violence, including, genocide, urban riots, inter-ethnic fighting and forms of hate crime targeting gay and lesbian people. Contributors to this volume also consider the political groups responsible for outbursts of hatred, their modes of operation and the institutional aspects of hate crime.
Opening up an interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which certain groups or individuals are transformed into expiatory victims, this compelling book is an essential read for all postgraduate law students and researchers interested in hate crime and society.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The effects of colonial policy: Genocide, racism and Aboriginal people in Australia
- 2 Taking history to court: Defamation and revisionism after the David Irving trial
- 3 From heroic death to comic death: Representations of African Americans in Harper’s Weekly from the Civil War to the early twentieth century
- 4 Italian Americans and the racialisation of ethnic violence in the United States
- 5 The role of violence in the far right in Canada
- 6 A ‘bolt-on extra to the police’s work?’: Racism and policing in the UK since the Macpherson Report
- 7 Roma Sacer: Constructing the ‘Gypsy other’ in British political and legal discourse
- 8 Anti-Traveller racism in Ireland: Violence and incitement to hatred
- 9 Hate speech made easy: The virtual demonisation of gays
- 10 Challenging the offence and reclaiming the offensive: The gay and lesbian movement in the United States and online homophobic speech
- 11 The impact of interdependence on racial hostility: The American experience
- Index