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The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry

This text explores two forms of hate and prejudice — racism in contemporary American society and the historical occurrence of anti-Semitism — under a single conceptual framework. Jack Levin, is a well-known scholar, author, and lecturer on the subject of hate crimes. In this book he shows how support for both racism and anti-Semitism can be conceptualized as occurring among four groups: hatemongers, dabblers, sympathizers, and spectators. Levin argues that hate and prejudice continue at a very dangerous level in our society, and that hate typically emanates not from the ranting and raving of a few people at the margins of society, but from ordinary people in the mainstream.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 134
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780205460878
  • Genres
  • sociology
  • Release date
  • 2006