Less than human: why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others by David Livingstone Smith

By E. Hodge. 2011

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How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words (2013, background): “…groups (Erikson, 1986), and it is now well known that those from the upper, middle, and lower class identify themselves as members of their respective classes through cultural markers, such as clothing styles, cultural rituals, and forms of speech that distinguish them from others (Smith, 2011).”
Darker Demons of Our Nature: The Need to (Re)Focus Attention on Blatant Forms of Dehumanization (2017, unknown): “Scholars suggest that the depiction of groups such as Africans, Native Americans, Tutsis, the Roma, and Jews (alongside others) as apes, savages, or vermin not only accompanied colonization, slavery, and extermination but facilitated these atrocities (Smith, 2011).”