Learning From The Germans : Race And The Memory Of Evil
2019
EBook
"As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past."--Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN: 9780374715526
Description:
- 1 online resource
- text file
Other Title: Race and the memory of evil
Notes:
- Electronic book.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019 Available via World Wide Web.
Contents:
- German lessons
- On the use and abuse of historical comparison
- Sins of the fathers
- Cold War memory
- Southern discomfort
- Everybody knows about Mississippi
- Lost causes
- Faces of Emmett Till
- Setting things straight
- Monumental recognition
- Rights and reparations
- In place of conclusions.
Control Number: 3206635
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.Subjects:
- African Americans -- Crimes against -- Public opinion.
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
- Collective memory -- Germany.
- Collective memory -- United States.
- Denazification -- Germany.
- National socialism -- Public opinion.
- Public opinion -- Germany.
- Public opinion -- United States.
- Racism -- United States -- Public opinion.
- Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung Vergangenheitsbewältigung
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany -- Public opinion.
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