On Bigotry
Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It
On Bigotry
Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It
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Description
When I was 23 years old, I found myself hiding in a dorm out of fear that a race riot was about to happen on my college campus. Why? Because Black students had protested the Confederate flag at a football game. It is an odd sensation to be able to look back at the single moment that altered the trajectory of how I related to the world. Before that night, I was only starting to wake up to the reality of what bigotry can do to people. By sunrise the next day, I had seen bigotry’s face and resolved not only to never ignore it but to understand what bigotry does to individuals.
On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It breaks down the curriculum of bigotry into concise, accessible chapters that explore both the historic and contemporary manifestations of bigotry in American society. This book will help readers become literate in how bigots think, the rhetorical tactics that bigotry uses to justify itself, and what readers can do to rebuke bigotry.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | Jul 10 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781538189764 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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