A Stranger in My Own House: A Look Into Modern Day Xenophobia

27 Apr 2020

Dear SMU Community,

In recent times, there has been an increasing trend towards nationalism, xenophobia, and even discrimination across societies and, more recently, during the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

SMU Libraries have compiled books on the topic of xenophobia and racism ranging from South African xenophobia during the Ebola crisis to border control in America. Learn more about this phenomenon by browsing the ebooks in our collection:

Title / Author
A Sociology of Shame and Blame Insiders Versus Outsiders / Graham Scambler e-Book
Antisemitism and xenophobia in Germany after unification / Hermann Kurthen; Werner Bergmann; Rainer Erb e-Book
Biased : uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do / Jennifer L. Eberhardt e-Book
Border brokers : children of Mexican immigrants navigating U.S. society, laws, and politics / Christina Getrich e-Book
Brokered Boundaries Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times / Douglas S.Massey, Magaly Sánchez e-Book
Discourses of Race and Rising China / Cheng Yinghong e-Book
Discrimination As Stigma : A Theory of Anti-Discrimination Law / Iyiola Solanke e-Book
For kin or country : xenophobia, nationalism, and war / Stephen Saideman e-Book
Modern-day xenophobia : critical historical and theoretical perspectives on the roots of anti-immigrant prejudice / Oksana Yakushko e-Book
Nationalism and the body politic : psychoanalysis and the rise of ethnocentrism and xenophobia / Lene Auestad e-Book
On the edge : religious freedom and persecution across Asia / Michael Kelly e-Book
The fear of Islam : an introduction to Islamophobia in the West / Todd Green e-Book
Those damned immigrants : America's hysteria over undocumented immigration / Ediberto Roman e-Book
Xenophobia in South Africa : a history / Hashi Kenneth Tafira e-Book