On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It

by David Livingstone Smith

Book Overview

The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again--that we would stand up and fight. But something deep in the human psyche--deeper than prejudice itself--leads people to persecute the other: dehumanization, or the human propensity to think of others as less than human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190923008
• ISBN13: 9780190923006
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 7.1"