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Historicizing Fear: Index

Historicizing Fear

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Index

Adams, Henry, 197

“addicted army,” 12, 157–75; as myth, 163–65, 169; as scapegoats, 165, 168, 170–71

addiction, 168–69

Africa, smallpox eradication in, 60, 60–61, 61, 63, 64

African Americans: depicted as lazy, 138–39; in elected office, 134–39; fear of, 7, 11–12; Redeemers portraying, 123–25, 127–28, 131–33, 137–38, 139; and wealth gap, 83. See also black masculinities

Alabama, Reconstruction resentment in, 133

alcohol use, 161, 162

Aldama, Arturo J., 3, 4, 8

Alexander, Jeffrey C., 142

Allen, Quaylan, 9

Alsop, Stewart, 164

“Americanism,” 199

American Jewish Congress, 199

“American labor,” 114, 115

Amherst, Jeffrey, 55

amphetamines, 157; heroin mixed with, 158–59; Vietnam War use of, 160–61, 162; World War II use of, 158, 160

anarchism, 109–10, 110, 111, 199–200

Andean soldiers, drug use by, 158

Anger Within, 78

An Lushan Rebellion, 43

anticommunism, 11, 13, 102–21, 204; American identity and, 116–17; as anti-labor tactic, 103–5, 107–8, 116–18; civil liberties eroded by, 113, 116; deportation and, 115–16; devil imagery in, 111–12; as “hysteria,” 103, 104; immigrants and, 104, 108–18; Jewish victims of, 195, 204; in newspapers, 102, 108–16, 110, 113, 115, 117; as racist, 105; “Red” language of, 110–12; state repression of, 112–16

anti-Semitism, 13, 74–78, 194–208; and non-Jewish racial Others, 77–78; Protocols of the Elders of Zion and, 74–75, 206; ZOG theory and, 75–78

Arkansas, 10–11, 88–101; murders in, 132; railroad work in, 91, 92–93

Armstrong, Melanie, 9–10

Asia, smallpox eradication in, 59, 62, 62, 63

Asians, stereotypes of, 106, 109, 111, 114

assassination, political, 128, 194, 200

Austin, Algernon, 5

Australia, white-power music in, 78

Austria, the far right in, 5–6

Al-Awadi, Abdul Rahman, 64

Banner-Haley, Charles Pete T., 144

Barreto, Matt, 5

Barsky, Joseph, 197

Bartlett, Billy, 80

Baton Rouge police shooting, 4, 5

Battlefront, 76–77, 79

Beck, Glenn, 139

Belgium. See Low Countries

Berger, Victor, 13, 204

Berkman, Alexander, 194, 200, 203, 204

Best, Harry, 203

Bettis, William “Son,” 95–96

Bingham, Theodore, 198

biology, 10, 57, 76

The Birth of a Nation, 11–12, 122–23, 124–25, 130, 144; Black Beast in, 127–28; black elected officials in, 127, 136, 137–38; as propaganda and recruitment tool, 122–23; protests against, 125; Reconstruction depicted in, 131, 132, 133, 136; religion in, 139–40, 143

Black Beast, 126–30

black masculinities, 9, 19–34; in the criminal justice system, 24–26; discipline of, 9, 20, 23, 24–26, 27–28; and gun ownership, 131, 133–34; in history, 24; media representations of, 21–24, 27–28; and the racial hoax, 27–28; in school, 23; surveillance of, 8, 20, 24–28; as threat and commodity, 20–21, 24

black militancy, 130–34

Black Power, 133

Black Rock, Arkansas, 88, 98n1

Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 7–8

The Blast, 200, 204

Blitt, Barry, 136–37

Blue Eyed Devils, 77

bodies: black, as violent, 125; black male, 21; smallpox represented by, 60, 60; as vulnerable, 63, 65, 66; WHO officials reading, 63

Bolshevism. See communism

Bonanza, Arkansas, 93

borderland, 37

border wall, 4

Born on the Fourth of July, 169

Borstelmann, Thomas, 106, 108–9

Bound for Glory, 75

Bourne, Randolph, 195

boxing, 126–27

Boyle, Kevin, 129–30

Brandeis, Louis, 199

Breivik, Anders Behring, 81

Brewer, David, 140–41

Brexit, 6

Brown, Michael, 27

Brown, Simone, 8

Brown, William Garrott, 124

brownshirts, 85n28

Brown v. Board of Education, 130

Burgess, John William, 135

Burns, Tommy, 126–27

burqa ban, 82–83

Cahan, Abraham, 202

Cameron, Ben (character in Birth of a Nation), 123, 127, 132

Cameron, Flora (character in Birth of a Nation), 127

Cameron, James, 129

Cameron family (characters in Birth of a Nation), 131, 132

Campbell, David, 167–68

Canada, white-power music in, 76

“Can the Subaltern Speak” (Spivak), 7

capitalism, 176–93; and labor, conflict between, 199; radical Jews and, 194–208; transition to, 176

Card, Claudia, 10, 90, 94

Carmichael, Stokely, 133

cartoons, political, 11, 102, 103, 105, 108–16; descriptive, 108–12, 110, 113; Obama in, 136–37; prescriptive, 112–16, 115, 117; Reconstruction-era, 131–32

Catcher, Arkansas, 95–96

ceramic industry, 185, 190n31

Charles I (king), 189n10

China: drug use by soldiers in, 158; immigrants from, 106, 118n17; unification of, 35–36, 38. See also Lingnan

Christianity, 139–41, 142, 143

citizenship: Chinese barred from, 106, 118n17; smallpox and, 54–56, 57; whiteness and, 107

City God temple, 44, 45, 49n44

civil liberties, erosion of, 113, 116, 204, 206

Civil Rights Movement, 8

Civil War, opiate use during, 171

The Clansmen (Dixon), 123

Clay, John Henry, 95–96

Clay County, Arkansas, 90–91

Coburn, Tom, 138

cocaine, 157, 158; black workers associated with, 159; in the UK, 159–60, 164

Cole, James, 133–34

Colfax, Louisiana, 133

colonialism, 8; disease and, 10, 54–56, 65; and white extinction, 74

Colwell, Stephen A., 141

commercialization of societies, 176–93

communism, racializing, 11, 102–21

Confucianism, 39

Content, Harold, 203

Cook, Walter Henry, 124

Coolidge, Calvin, 102

Corbin, Austin, 197

Cotter, Arkansas, 94–95

crime: black men associated with, 22, 24–25, 82, 131–32; immigrants associated with, 4, 196, 198; Jewishness and, 194, 198

criminal justice system, 24–26

Cronkite, Walter, 164

Cui Wei, 43–45

Czolgosz, Leon, 200

Dallas police shooting, 4–5

Daniels, Roger, 202

Dark Matters (Brown), 8

Davenport-Hines, Richard, 170

Davidovitch, David, 201

Davis, Jordan, 27

dehumanization, 114, 116, 117

Delft, 185, 190n31

democracy, pluralism and, 195

Department of Defense (DOD), 160, 161, 162, 163

deportation, 13, 115–16, 204

De Smet, Brecht, 12–13

deviance, disease and, 53

Dillingham Commission, 106

Diner, Hasia, 197

Dinnerstein, Leonard, 199

Di Renjie, 42

discipline: of black men, 9, 20, 23, 24–26, 27–28; of laborers, 180–81, 183, 184, 185–86, 187–88

disease: colonialism and, 10, 54–56, 65; control, Foucault on, 53, 57; cultural practices and, 62–63; deviance measured by, 53; fear of, 53–67; in Lingnan region, 35, 37; Native Americans and, 55, 65; racialized, 10, 53–56, 62–63, 65, 66; terrorism and, 66–67; war narrative of, 54, 58–65; as a weapon, 55–56, 65–66

Disidentifications (Muñoz), 8

Dispatches (Herr), 161

diversity, value of, 195

Dixon, Thomas F., Jr., 123

Dobkowski, Michael, 202

Documenting the Black Experience (Lawrence), 7

“dog-whistle politics,” 137–39

Donaghey, George Washington, 94

Donaldson, Ian Stuart, 79–80, 81

Dornbusch, Christian, 84n1

double consciousness, 8

“A Dream No Longer” (Cahan), 202

Dreyfus affair, 196, 200

drug consumption, wartime, 12, 157–75; and “addicted army” myth, 163–65, 169; addiction stemming from, 159, 166–67, 168–69; as contextual, 170; countering, 162–63; in history, 157–59; moral panic concerning, 159–60, 165–67, 168–69; screening for, 166–67; statistics, 162, 170

The Drugged Nation (Finlator), 169

drug regulations, 157, 160, 170–71

Drumont, Édouard, 196, 197

Du Bois, W.E.B., 7–8

Duke, David, 123

Dyck, Kirsten, 10

economic theory, 176–81

Elizabeth I (queen), 176–77

Emberton, Carole, 131, 132

the enemy as Other, 171

enslaved persons as Others, 7

Entman, Robert, 24

epidemiology, 54

equality, fear preventing, 7, 11–12, 125–26

Espionage Act (1917), 13, 201, 204

ethnicity, 105

eugenics, 103, 105–7, 118, 145n15

Evans, Caleb, 98n4

Evening Shade, Arkansas, 89, 98nn3–4

“Eyes Full of Rage” (song), 79–80

factories, Low Country, 184–87

Fanon, Franz, 7–8

Farage, Nigel, 5

fear, economic: commercialization lowering, 178, 179, 180; of wage laborers, 181, 183, 186, 187

Fein, Helen, 97

Ferguson, Ann, 23

Ferrell, Jonathan, 27

Finlator, John, 169

Fishback, William Meade, 88

fly agaric, 158

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 204

Fong, Adam, 9

“Forked-Tongue Lies” (song), 76, 79

Fortress, 78

Foucault, Michel, 53, 57

France: anti-Semitism in, 196; economic development of, 181, 182

Frank, Leo, 198

free markets, 107, 180, 187

free speech, attacks on, 13

Frick, Henry Clay, 194

frontier, Chinese, 9, 37

gender and race, intersections between, 9, 26, 62

Germany: Anglicization of names from, 205; anti-Semitism in, 196; white-power music in, 78, 81

Gerson, Felix, 198

Giese, Daniel “Gigi,” 81

Gigi & die braune Stadtmusikanten, 81, 85n28

Gilded Age, 194, 195, 196–97

Giuliani, Rudy, 143

Glory, 125

Glover, Angela Blackwell, 144

God of the Southern Sea, 45–46, 49n48

Goldfarb, Max, 201

Goldman, Emma, 200, 203, 204, 205

Graham, Franklin, 142

Grant, Madison, 106, 107, 145n15

Great Migration, 128

Greece, ancient, 158

Griffith, D. W., 11–12, 122, 123, 125, 136

Gross, F. J., 196

Guangdong Province, 36

Guangxi Zhuang Ethnicity Autonomous Region, 36

Guangzhou, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41; as dangerous posting, 35, 39, 41; as major port, 42–46; Tang accommodation of, 44–46

guilds, 178–79, 182–83, 184, 187–88, 189n10; journeymen in, 189n27

guns, black ownership of, 131, 133–34

gu poison, 41

Gus (character in Birth of a Nation), 127–28

Guzman, Jessie Parkhurst, 128–29

“Hail the Swastika” (song), 73, 77

Hainan Province, 36

Hamburg Massacre, 124, 132

Han Chinese, 36–37; southerners destabilizing, 39, 41; southward expansion of, 37

Handlin, Oscar, 196

Haney-López, Ian, 137, 138–39, 141

Han Yu, 45–46

Haraway, Donna, 54

Harris, Robert, 27

Harrison Act (1914), 171

Hartman, Saidiya, 7

hate crimes, 6, 81–82, 126; lynching, 21, 97, 127, 128–29, 198; during Obama’s presidency, 126

Heale, M. J., 104–5

Henderson, Donald A., 58, 59

herd immunity, 58

Herman, Emil, 204

heroin, 158–59; amphetamines mixed with, 158–59; screening, 166–67; statistics concerning, 162, 170; US availability of, 166; use of, in Vietnam, 159, 160, 161, 162–63, 169–70; “white snow,” 162–63

Herr, Michael, 161, 165

Higham, John, 105, 206

Hillquit, Morris, 202, 203

hinterland, 37

HIV/AIDS, 53

Hoberman, John, 22

Hofer, Norbert, 5–6

Hollander, Barry A., 142

Homer, 158

Homestead Strike, 194

Hopgood, Norman, 195

Hourwich, Nicholas, 202

Howell, Kenneth W., 132

Huangpu, 46, 49n48

Hughes, Chris Evans, 199

Hunt, Leona, 130

Hunt, Michael H., 108

identity, national, 168

idleness, 179–80

immigrants, 4, 5–6, 102–3, 195; Dillingham Commission and, 106; and eugenics, 103, 105–7, 118; Jewish, 194–95, 196–99, 202–4; job insecurity and, 114–15, 183, 186–87, 188; labor movement and, 103–4, 108–16; in Low Countries, 183, 186–87, 188; nativist attitudes to, 11, 103–5, 106, 195–96, 202–4

Immigration Act (1917), 204

“The Importance of Being Stoned in Vietnam” (Steinbeck), 163–64

India: drug use by soldiers in, 158; smallpox in, 59, 63

industrialization, 178, 181, 182, 184–87, 190n31

Ingraham, Larry H., 165

Irish-Americans, 109

Islam, 141, 142–43

“I Wanna See the Day” (song), 80, 81

Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 105, 107, 108

Jaffe, Jerome, 167

Jenner, Edward, 56

Jewish Americans: crime associated with, 194, 198; discrimination against, 197, 198; from Germany, 199, 205; leftist, 13, 194–208; loyalty of, 204–5; resistance of, 198–99, 204; as socialists, 201–4; stereotyped as avaricious, 197–98, 200

Jewish Socialist Federation (JSF), 201, 204, 205

Jiaozhou, 40, 48n28

Johnson, Boris, 6

Johnson, Jack, 126–27, 128

Johnson, Jeffrey A., 13

Johnson-Reed Act (1924), 106, 118

Jones, Lewis Ward, 128–29

Jozwik, Arek, 6

Kaiyuan Monastery, 43, 48n41

Kallan, Horace, 195

Kamieński, Łukasz, 12

Karlsson, Jocke, 73

Karr, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse, 122

Kennan, George, 106

knowledge, power from, 38, 47

Know-Nothing Party, 196

Kolovrat, 75, 84n10

Korean War, drug use in, 158–59, 160

Kovel, Joel: on Othering, 105, 116–17; on radicals, depiction of, 109; on “Red” language, 110, 111; on repression, 112

Kramer, Paul A., 110

Kristof, Nicholas D., 144

Krogh, Egil, Jr., 160

Ku Klux Klan (KKK): anti-Semitism fueling, 206; armed self-defense against, 133–34; black militancy feared by, 131, 133; founding of, 123; politicians intimidated by, 128; politicians opposing, 136; portrayed as heroes, 124–25, 132; recruitment, 122

Ku Klux Klan Act (1871), 136

Kuzmarov, Jeremy, 163–64, 165

laborers, 177–88; bargaining power lacked by, 178–79; discipline of, 180–81, 183, 184, 185–86, 187–88; fearing immigrant labor, 114–15, 183, 186–87, 188; in political cartoons, 114–15, 115; protecting their livelihoods, 182, 183, 184; racial terror faced by, 90–91; racial violence among, 93

labor market, 180–81, 184–87

labor movement, 11; Belgian and Dutch, 12–13, 176, 187; Catholic church and, 187; Red Scare as tactic against, 103–5, 107–8, 116–18; violence and, 199

Laird, Melvin R., 166

Lancaster, Guy, 10–11

Landser, 75, 84n10

Latimer, Effie, 95, 96

Laughlin, Harry H., 107

law enforcement: attacks on, 4–5; Obama and, 4; violence from, 25, 27, 128, 197, 198

Lawrence, D. H., 102

Lawrence, Novotny, 7

van Leeuwenhoek, Antony, 52

legislation: drug, 157, 160, 170–71; fear driving, 13, 126, 199–200, 201, 204–5; labor, 180, 187; white-power goals conflicting with, 78

Lehuermann, E. Augustus, 196

Levinas, Emmanuel, 7

Liao people, 39

liberalism, 176, 185–86

Linder, John, 66

Lindsay, Burrell, 92, 97, 99n14

Lingnan, 36–47; ethnic groups of, 39; foreigners in, 40, 44, 45; gu poison of, 41; as a middle ground, 37–38; religions of, 41–42, 45–46; resistance of, to imperial rule, 40–41; sorcery in, 40–41; wealth of, 39–40, 42–46, 47

Li people, 39

Literary Digest, 102, 103, 109, 111, 115

literature, right-wing, 8

“The Lives of the Dead” (O’Brien), 161

Loewen, James W., 90

Löffler, Hermine, 6

Logue, Cal M., 124

Los Angeles Times bombing, 199

“Loss of Identity” (song), 78

Low Countries: ceramic industry in, 185, 190n31; economic development of, 181–85, 188; organized workers’ movement of, 12–13, 184–86; wool industry in, 182–83

Lüdke, Alf, 98n2

Lynch, Silas (character in Birth of a Nation), 127, 136, 137–38

lynching, 21, 97, 127, 128–29; anti-lynching bills and, 129; of Jewish man, 198; vs. whitecapping, 90

Maastricht, 185–87

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 54

Maddex, Jack, Jr., 124

Magnes, Judah, 204

Major, James, 129–30

managed markets, 179

Man ethnicities, 39

Mann, James R., 128

Mann Act, 128

Manzione, Elton, 160

marijuana, 157; Mexicans associated with, 159; use of, in Vietnam, 161, 162, 162

Marion, Indiana, lynching, 129

Marks, Jeannette, 171

Martin, Trayvon, 9, 19–20, 22–23; images of, 22–23; profiling of, 26; as racial hoax, 27–28

Marx, Karl, 179

Marxism. See socialist movement; Soviet Union

masculinity, 9

Matkin-Rawn, Story, 90

May, J. D., 98n4

Mayo-Smith, Richmond, 196

McKinley, William, 200

McLeod, Teresa, 27

McRae, Thomas Chipman, 96

merchants, 178–80, 182–84, 187, 189n10; in Confucian thought, 39, 45; in Guangzhou, 40

Metcalf, Henry Santos, 9

microbes, 9–10, 52–70; boundaries transgressed by, 52–53; and herd immunity, 58; metaphors of, 53–54, 58; smallpox, 54–67; social order and, 52–53, 54; vaccination against, 56–59

“middle ground,” 37–38

Miller, Thomas, 135

miscegenation laws, 21, 128

Monroe, North Carolina, 133, 134

Mormonism, 141–42

Most, Johann, 199

Mother Earth, 200

Moyers, Bill, 144

Muhammad, Kahlil Gibran, 8

Muñoz, José Esteban, 8

Murphy, Morgan F., 166

Murray, Robert K., 108, 112–13

musicians, white-power, 10, 73–87

Myers, Henry L., 110

Nast, Thomas, 131–32

National Alliance, 79

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 125, 129, 134

Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD), 85n28

national security, 167–68

Native Americans: disease killing, 55, 65; “Red” associated with, 111, 112

nativism, 11, 103–5, 106, 195–96, 202–4

nature, fear of, 9–10, 52–70

Nazi propaganda, 75, 76

Negroes with Guns (Williams), 134

nepenthe, 158

the Netherlands. See Low Countries

newspapers: anticommunism in, 102, 108–16, 110, 113, 115, 117; racial cleansing and, 88, 94–95, 96

Ngai, Mae M., 106

nightriders, 88–89, 99n14

Nixon, Richard, 159, 166–67, 168, 169, 171

Nolen, Claude H., 124

Nordic Thunder, 77

Norton, Michael I., 139

Norway, racial violence in, 81

Nye, James, 131

Obama, Barack, 4, 12, 21, 136–37, 144; backlash to, 5, 126, 137, 138; as Muslim, 141, 142–43, 147n85

O’Brien, Tim, 161

Odyssey (Homer), 158

Oi! (punk genre), 75, 79

Operation Golden Flow, 167, 170

opium, 158; Chinese associated with, 159; use of, in Vietnam, 160, 161, 162

The Original Mr. Jacobs (Timayenis), 197

the Other, 3, 8–10, 17–70; drug user as, 168–69, 170–71; the enemy as, 171; enslaved person as, 7; microbes and, 53–54, 63, 67; reinforcing fear of, 8, 10–13; Trump stoking fears of, 5

Othering, 7–8

Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis (Strong), 196

Page, Wade Michael, 81

Palmer, A. Mitchell, 108, 112

Paragould, Arkansas, 91, 99n12

Parker, Christopher, 5

Parlett, Martin A., 141

The Passing of the Great Race (Grant), 106, 145n15

paternalism, 185–86

Patterson, Orlando, 7

people of color: crime imputed to, 22, 24–25, 82, 131–32; disease and, 55–56, 62, 65; extrajudicial killings of, 4, 21, 26, 97, 127, 128–29; hate crimes against, 6, 81–82, 126. See also African Americans; black masculinities

periphery, 37

Perry, Albert, 133–34

Petty, William, 179

Phagan, Mary, 198

Piedmont, South Carolina, 131

Pierce, William, 79

Pike, James S., 135

Platform Sutra, 39

pluralism, value of, 195

Pluton Svea, 73, 77, 79, 84n2

police violence, 25, 27, 128, 197, 198

Polk County, Arkansas, 92–93, 99n16

postcolonialism, 7

poverty, 181–82

Powell, Julie M., 11

profiling: of black men, 20, 22, 25–27, 28; for disease, 66

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 74–75, 206

psychopharmacology. See drug consumption, wartime

Pulley, Monroe, 99n12

queer communities of color, 8

Raabe, Jan, 84n1

race: “dog-whistle politics” and, 137–39; in early twentieth-century US, 105–7; gender and, intersections between, 9, 26, 62; and national origin, 105–6; and racial caste system, 103, 105–6, 107–9, 112, 114–15; as a social construct, 76; southern and eastern Europeans and, 106–7, 108–9, 117–18

racial cleansing, 10–11, 75, 88–101; elite powerlessness to prevent, 93–94; elites behind, 94–96; face-to-face threats of, 89, 90–91; motives for, 88–89; newspapers and mail used for, 88, 94–95, 96; poor whites carrying out, 89, 98n2; posting notice of, 88, 89, 91–94, 96; town meetings concerning, 93; violence and, 10–11, 89, 91, 92–93, 94, 95–97

racial hoaxes, 27–28

racism: covert, 82–84; drug use and, 159; as invisible to white people, 144; mainstream, 82–84; in music, 73–87; overt, decline of, 10, 75, 82; and racial terror, 10–11, 81, 89–90, 97–98, 128–29; as systemic issue, 143–44. See also anti-Semitism; white supremacy

Rainey, Joseph Hayne, 136

Ralls, J. R., 123

Reconstruction, 91–92, 123–24, 131–33; black elected officials in, 134–36; racism today parallel to, 139, 143–44

“Red Aliens,” 112, 113

“Redeemers,” 123–24, 127

“red Finns,” 112

Red Scare. See anticommunism

Reemtsma, Jan Philip, 96–97

Reform Act (1832), 181

Regout, Petrus, 185–86, 187

religion: Christianity, 139–41; Islam, 141, 142–43; in the labor movement, 187; Mormonism, 141–42; smallpox eradication and, 63

Resistance (magazine), 77, 78, 79

Resistance Records, 79

The Rising Tide of Color against the White World (Stoddard), 145n15

Robins, Lee N., 167, 169, 170

Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich, 134

Roediger, David R., 112, 114

Romney, Mitt, 137, 138–39, 141–42

Rosenberg, Paul, 139

Rucks, Charles Spurgeon, 95–96

Runstedtler, Theresa, 128

Saga, 81

Said, Edward, 38, 47

San Francisco Preparedness Day parade, 199

Sanger, Margaret, 204

sanitation industry, 53

“savagery,” 108–12

Scandinavian revival paganism, 80

Scenes of Subjection (Hartman), 7

Schlereth, Eric R., 140

Schmidt, Regin, 104, 105, 107, 108

Schmitt, Carl, 171

scientific racism, 20–21, 76, 106, 123, 145n15

sedatives, 157, 161

Sedition Act (1918), 13, 201, 204

segregation, workplace, 114, 129–30

Seneken, Bernard, 205

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 142–43

sexuality, black male, 21, 28

Shipp, Tom, 129

Shitala Mata, 63

Siberia, drug use in, 158

Skrewdriver, 79–80, 81

Slavery and Social Death (Patterson), 7

Slavs, 106, 116, 117

smallpox, 54–67; cost of, 64; eradication programs, 57–65; house-marking for, 63, 64; self-reporting on, 59–60, 60; stocks of, 65, 66, 68n34; vaccines, 56–63, 61, 62, 66–67, 68n30; as a weapon, 55–56, 65–66

Smith, Abe, 129

Smith, Adam, 176, 177–79, 180, 185, 187–88

Smith, Charles, 131

Smith, Susan, 27

socialist movement, 12–13, 187; Russian Revolution welcomed by, 202; World War I opposed by, 200–201. See also labor movement

Socialist Party of America (SPA), 201, 203, 205

Sokrya Peruna, 78

Solar Igniting Pearl, 44

Sommers, Samuel R., 139

The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois), 7–8

“Soviet Ark,” 116, 204

Soviet Union, 104, 106, 110–11; founding of, 202

Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP), 167, 169

Spivak, Gayatri, 7

state violence: anti-Semitic, 197, 198; against black men, 25, 27, 128; Trump justifying, 4–5

Stearns, Peter, 7

Steele, Robert H., 166

Steinbeck, John, IV, 12, 163–64

Steuart, James, 176, 179–80, 187, 188

Stewart, Pamela J., 10–11, 89

Stinney, George, Jr., 19, 21, 26–27

Stoddard, Lothrop, 145n15

Stoecker, Adolf, 196

Stokes, Melvyn, 122

stop-and-frisk, 25

Stormfront, 76

Strathern, Andrew, 10–11, 89

strikes, 102, 112, 194

Strong, Josiah, 196

sundown towns, 10–11, 88–101; definition of, 90; location of, 98n7

surveillance: of black Americans, 8, 20, 24–28; smallpox marks and, 66, 68n30

Sweden: drug use by troops in, 158; white-power music in, 73, 84n2

Szasz, Thomas, 165

Tang dynasty, 9, 35–51; accommodating southern culture, 44–47

Taylor, Clyde, 139

Tea Party, 141

terrorism: disease and, 66–67; racial, 10–11, 81, 89–91, 97–98, 128–29; September 11 attacks, 142, 143

13 Knots, 81, 85n30

Thomson, Eric, 75

Till, Emmett, 9, 21

Tillman, Benjamin “Pitchfork,” 124, 135

Timayenis, Telemachus, 196–97

de Tocqueville, Alexis, 141

Trading with the Enemy Act (1917), 201

Trump, Donald J., 3–5, 143

“The Truth Will Set You Free” (song), 77–78

Tuli, Jitendra, 59

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 133

Ukraine, white-power music in, 78

Uncle Sam, 114, 115–16

unions, 11; communism conflated with, 103–4, 107, 113–14; in Low Countries, 187; racial cleansing fought by, 93

United Kingdom (UK), 5, 6; drug panic in, 159–60, 164; transition of, to capitalism, 176–81, 187, 189n10; white-power music in, 79–80

United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), 5, 6

United States: anticommunism in, 102–21; black-white wealth gap in, 83; as a Christian nation, 139–41; “post-racial,” 12, 122–53; racial cleansing in, 88–101; white-power music in, 77–78, 80

“universe of obligation,” 97

USS Buford, 116, 204

vaccination, 56–67, 68n30; posters urging, 60–62, 61

variolation, 56

Versieren, Jelle, 12–13

veterans, drug use by, 12, 157–75

Vietnam War, 12, 157, 160–75; “addicted army” myth of, 163–65; anti-narcotic measures during, 162–63; and dishonorable discharges, 167; drug screening of vets of, 166–67; military-prescribed drugs in, 160–61; as “pharmacological war,” 160; self-prescribed drugs in, 161–62; vets of, as Other, 168–69, 170–71

violence: of anticommunism, 112–16; anti-Semitic, 197, 198; as communication, 96–97; communism linked to, 109–10, 110; the labor movement and, 199; police, 25, 27, 128, 197, 198; during and post-Reconstruction, 124, 128–29, 132–33; of racial cleansing, 10–11, 89, 91, 92–93, 94, 95–97; as voter suppression, 128, 133

Von Glahn, Richard, 37

Waddle, Bill, 91

Waldby, Catherine, 54

Waldman, Louis, 13, 204

Walker, Brett, 37

Walker, Francis, 106

Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, 94

Waltman, Michael, 8

war metaphors for disease, 54, 58–65

War on Drugs, 12, 159, 165, 166–67, 171

wealth, social, 186

Wealth of Nations (Smith), 178

Webb, Clive, 8

West African soldiers, drug use by, 158

West River (Xi Jiang) basin, 36. See also Lingnan

white Americans: fearing discrimination, 139; and redefinition of whiteness, 102–3, 105–8, 118; xenophobia uniting, 105

whitecappers, 88–89, 90–91, 98n1

white extinction, 8, 73–74; immigration and, 106; and Jewish world conspiracy theory, 74–78; racial violence and, 79–82

white nationalism, 5, 132

white-on-black violence, 11, 21, 88–98, 127, 128–29, 132–34

white paramilitary groups, 128, 131–33. See also Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

white-power music, 10, 73–87; companies behind, 79–80; definition of, 84n1; festivals, 75; recruitment through, 79, 82, 83

white privilege, 83, 139

White Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act, 1910), 128

white supremacy: disease resistance and, 55–56; North and South united by, 132; and scientific racism, 20–21, 76, 106, 123, 145n15; and “white man’s burden,” 97; and white privilege, 83, 139

white women, 11, 21, 126; black men marrying, 127; “protection” of, 21, 123, 127–28, 129, 130

Wiecek, William M., 104, 105

Willard, Jess, 128

Williams, Robert Franklin, 133, 134

Wilson, Woodrow, 102, 199, 204

Wise, Stephen, 198–99

women of color, representation of, 61, 62, 62

Wood, Amy Louise, 97

wool industry, 176–77, 182–83

workplace segregation, 114, 129–30

World Health Organization (WHO), 57–58, 59, 63–65

World War I, 13; anti-radicalism and, 199–206; and anti-war organizing, 200–201; drug use in, 158, 159–60; Jewish radicals and, 195, 199–201, 204, 205–6; Jewish servicemen in, 205

World War II, drug use in, 158, 160

The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon), 8

Writing Security (Campbell), 167–68

Wu Zetian, 42

xenophobia, 5–6

Yangzi River basin, 38

Yellow River, 36, 46

Yiddish, 201, 205

Youngland, 80, 81

Zhenzhou, 40–41

Zhu Rong, 46

Zimmerman, George, 9, 19–20, 22–23, 26

Zionist Occupation Government (ZOG) theory, 75–76; non-Jews in, 77–78, 80; racial violence and, 79–82

Zulu soldiers, drug use by, 158

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