In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crimes

In the Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the United.
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In the Name of Hate is an ambitious undertaking which represents a painful reality in the wake of the national tragedy of the September 11, terrorist attack against the United States. While published prior to that date, this work adds a rather unique dimension to the scholarship on power and institutionalized discrimination and has global as well as domestic implications. Vivid and distasteful remarks by state and national political representatives which fuel tendencies toward hatred, bigotry and violence are cited extensively.

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The author uses a class struggle framework to examine power and the dynamics of difference. Intolerance, bigotry, and negative attitudes and stereotypes about subordinate groups which are prevalent among individual Americans are discussed in the context of a rhetoric of hate which begins at the "top". The most maligned three groups African Americans, gays and lesbians, and recent immigrants are used as exemplars of how an environment of intolerance is shaped by negative political rhetoric.

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The discussion in Chapter Six on the ideologies of power sets the stage for this chapter, which is indeed the most powerful of the eight chapters in the book. May God Have Mercy: Violence and Nonviolence Gregg L. Hello, Shadowlands Patrick Winn.


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Gang Leader for a Day Sudhir Venkatesh. Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq. The Grim Sleeper Christine Pelisek. The Anatomy of Motive Douglas.

In the Name of Hate : Understanding Hate Crimes

The Serial Killers Colin Wilson. Bloodlines Melissa Del Bosque. The Vory Mark Galeotti. States of Denial Stanley Cohen.

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Miller's Children James Garbarino. This laundry list of hate is a frightening reminder that such crimes are a sad fact of life in the world today.

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In the Name of Hate is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of hate crimes, arguing for an expansion of the legal definitions that most states in the United States hold. Barbara Perry provides a historical understanding of hate crimes and provocatively argues that hate crimes are not an aberration of current society, but rather a by-product of a society still grappling with inequality, difference, fear, and hate.

Table of contents List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Ethnoviolence and the State Chapter 8 - Conclusion: Nielsen Book Data List of tables.

The Violence of Hatred 1. Defining and Measuring Hate Crime 2. Accounting for Hate Crime: Defending the Colour Line: Race, Difference and Hate Crime 4. Doing Gender and Doing Gender Inappropriately: Beyond Black and White: