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Book

Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil

Call Number

  • 305.8 N414 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Physical Description

415 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Neiman delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Through discussions with Germans she tells the story of the long and difficult path Germans faced in their effort to atone for the crimes of the Holocaust. In the United States, she interviews social justice activists to provide a compelling picture of the work contemporary Americans are doing to confront our violent history."--Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • On the use and abuse of historical comparison
  • Sins of the fathers
  • Cold War memory
  • Everybody knows about Mississippi
  • Lost causes
  • Faces of Emmett Till
  • Monumental recognition
  • Rights and reparations
  • In place of conclusions.

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