Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization

by David Livingstone Smith

Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize.

A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others--and how and why we do it.

"I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it." So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674545567
• ISBN13: 9780674545564
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"