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Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil

2019

Format:	Book
Author:	Neiman, Susan, author.
Title:	Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil / Susan Neiman.
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Description:	415 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	"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.
Subjects:	Collective memory -- Germany. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany -- Public opinion. National socialism -- Public opinion. Denazification -- Germany. African Americans -- Crimes against -- Public opinion. Racism -- United States -- Public opinion. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History. Collective memory -- United States. Public opinion -- United States. Public opinion -- Germany.
Other Title:	Race and the memory of evil
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-398) and index.
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.
LCCN:	2018060804
ISBN:	9780374184469 0374184461 9780374184469
Other Number:	1053484072
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	809017
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Call Number:	305.8 Neiman

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