This may be esoteric, but in the early/mid 1970s Gregory Bergman, in Berkeley, wrote several essays on views of the (Communist) and, earlier, (Catholic) "enemy" by many American/s/groups. These appeared in the nationwide magazine Christian Century and a Franciscan magazine based in the SF Bay Area (I forget the name), I believe. They give some good general concepts, with many examples, of the use of language for dehumanization. Paula
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