Of fear and strangers: a history of xenophobia

Prologue: out of Beirut

Part I. The origins of xenophobia

1. In search of Xénos ; 2. Avant la lettre, or The black legend ; 3. The first xenophobes ; 4. The Boxer uprising ; 5. Colonial panic ; 6. Commence the unraveling ; 7. Immigrant boomerang ; 8. The road to genocide

Part II. Inside the xenophobic mind

9. Little Albert and the wages of fear ; 10. The invention of the stereotype ; 11. Projection and the negative of love ; 12. The enigma of the other ; 13. Self estrangements

Part III. The return of the stranger

14. Why we hate them ; 15. The new xenophobia

Coda: in the Pyrenees.