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Author:

Neiman, Susan, author.

Title:

Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil / Susan Neiman.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

415 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

World War (1939-1945)
Collective memory--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Public opinion.--Germany--Public opinion.
National socialism--Public opinion.
Denazification--Germany.
African Americans--Public opinion.--Public opinion.
Racism--United States--Public opinion.
Civil rights movements--United States--History.
Collective memory--United States.
Public opinion--United States.
Public opinion--Germany.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0374184461
9780374184469

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1053484072

LCCN:

2018060804

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