Encountering Bigotry: Befriending Projecting People in Everyday Life

by Dorothy Gibbons, Philip Lichtenberg, Janneke van Beusekom

Book Overview

Encountering Bigotry examines the occurrence of emotionally fraught and socially provocative expressions, such as racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, classism, and other forms of hatred of outgroups or others, in everyday experience. The editors categorize such remarks as projections, particular forms of perceiving oneself and others in the world. This projection allows the person to perceive emotional intensity without owning (i.e., without...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881633844
• ISBN13: 9780881633849
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Gestalt Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"