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The Things They Say behind Your Back: Stereotypes and the Myths Behind Them

Helmreich, William B.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One: All About Stereotypes -- Two: Jews -- The Jewish Mother -- Internationalists Plotting to Take Over the World -- Shrewd Businessmen -- Have Horns -- The Chosen People -- Killed Jesus Christ -- Smarter -- Cheap -- Control Wall Street and the Banks -- Rich and Ostentatious -- Pushy and Aggressive -- Control the Media -- Have Big Noses -- Three: Italians -- "Mangia! Mangia!"--Stupid, Ignorant, Suspicious of Education -- Family-Oriented, Clannish, Distrustful of Outsiders -- Great Singers -- Talk with Their Hands -- Belong to the Mafia -- Cowards in Battle -- Violent and Quick-Tempered -- Great Shoemakers -- Four: Blacks -- Hypersensitive -- Sexual Prowess -- Physically Powerful, Great Athletes -- Dirty and Slovenly -- Stupid -- Musically Gifted, Great Rhythm, Terrific Entertainers -- Lazy and Shiftless -- Big Cadillacs and Flashy Clothes -- Violent Criminals -- Five: Japanese -- Chauvinistic -- Hardworking, Ambitious, and Competitive -- Highly Educated and Intelligent -- Japanese Women are Servile and Obedient -- The Sneaky Jap -- Strong Family Ties -- Great Imitators -- Law-Abiding -- Six: Chinese -- Sly, Sinister, and Deceitful -- No Tickee, No Washee -- Inscrutable -- The Best Food in the World -- Learned and Wise -- Love to Gamble -- Cruel -- Strong Family Ties -- Quiet, Polite, and Deferential -- Seven: Irish -- Heavy Drinkers -- Good at Politics -- Sexually Repressed -- Very Religious -- Highly Nationalistic -- Literary, Witty, and Gregarious -- The "Fighting Irish"--Eight: Poles -- Dumb -- Dirty -- Racists and Bigots -- Uneducated -- Boorish and Uncultured, Low Class -- Nine: WASPs -- Honorable -- Hardworking, Industrious, and Thrifty -- Cold and Insensitive -- Well-Mannered, Polite, Genteel -- Snobbish
[distributor] Taylor & Francis, c/o Bookpoint 2017-10-27 276 pages