Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil / Susan Neiman.
2019
DD256.48 .N45 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil / Susan Neiman.
Author
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374184469 (hardcover)
0374184461 (hardcover)
0374184461 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Language
English
Description
415 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
DD256.48 .N45 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.800973
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-398) and index.
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Table of Contents
Part One : German lessons
On the use and abuse of historical comparison
Sins of the fathers
Cold War memory
Part Two : Southern discomfort
Everybody knows about Mississippi
Lost causes
Faces of Emmett Till
Part Three : Setting things straight
Monumental recognition
Rights and reparations
In place of conclusions.
On the use and abuse of historical comparison
Sins of the fathers
Cold War memory
Part Two : Southern discomfort
Everybody knows about Mississippi
Lost causes
Faces of Emmett Till
Part Three : Setting things straight
Monumental recognition
Rights and reparations
In place of conclusions.