history of xenophobia<\/a>\u2014the fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers. A longtime psychiatry professor at Weill Cornell Medicine as well as an alum, Makari writes that while xenophobia may have ancient origins, the term itself\u2014which he calls \u201ca word filled with sea-tossed exiles, dreams of welcome, and the flashing specter of violence\u201d\u2014was not coined until the late 19th century. Makari (himself the son of Christian Arabs who emigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon) describes how the Holocaust and other genocidal atrocities spurred 20th-century efforts to understand the roots of irrational fear and hatred\u2014and how the concept of xenophobia has returned to the fore in recent years amid fraught debates over immigration in the U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A longtime psychiatry professor at Weill Cornell Medicine as well as an alum, George Makari, MD \u201987, offers a history of xenophobia\u2014the fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3630,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"cornell_author":[614],"cornell_year_book":[],"class_list":["post-3238","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cornell_author-george-makari-md-87"],"yoast_head":"\n
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