Contents

“I Want to Get Rid of My Fear”: An Introduction

Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu

Defining the “Other”/ Pathologizing Differences

1. “Up to No Good”: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Fear of Black Men in US Society

Quaylan Allen and Henry Santos Metcalf

2. Southern Perils: Chinese Views of Their Southern Territories during the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE)

Adam C. Fong

3. Microbe Culture: Germ Politics and the Unseen Racial History of Nature

Melanie Armstrong

Reinforcing or Spreading Fear of the “Other”

4. “They’ll Take Away Our Birthrights”: How White-Power Musicians Instill Fear of White Extinction

Kirsten Dyck

5. “. . . or Suffer the Consequences of Staying”: Terror and Racial Cleansing in Arkansas

Guy Lancaster

6. Making “The Case against the ‘Reds’”: Racializing Communism, 1919–1920

Julie M. Powell

7. Toward a Post-Racial Society, or a “Rebirth” of a Nation? White Anxiety and Fear of Black Equality in the United States

Travis D. Boyce and Winsome M. Chunnu

How Fear, Once Created and Spread, Is Used for Political Ends

8. A Pharmacological Gulf of Tonkin: The Myth of the Addicted Army in Vietnam and the Fear of a Junkie Veteran

Łukasz Kamieński

9. The Strategies of Fear, the Commercialization of Society, and the Rise of the Factory System in the Low Countries during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Jelle Versieren and Brecht De Smet

10. Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Minors: Anti-Radicalism and the Jewish Left

Jeffrey A. Johnson

About the Contributors

Index