Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil /
Neiman, Susan,
Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil / Race and the memory of evil Susan Neiman. - First edition. - 415 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-398) and index.
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.
"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.
9780374184469 0374184461
2018060804
Collective memory--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Public opinion.--Germany
National socialism--Public opinion.
Denazification--Germany.
African Americans--Crimes against--Public opinion.
Racism--Public opinion.--United States
Civil rights movements--History.--United States
Collective memory--United States.
Public opinion--United States.
Public opinion--Germany.
Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil / Race and the memory of evil Susan Neiman. - First edition. - 415 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-398) and index.
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.
"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.
9780374184469 0374184461
2018060804
Collective memory--Germany.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Public opinion.--Germany
National socialism--Public opinion.
Denazification--Germany.
African Americans--Crimes against--Public opinion.
Racism--Public opinion.--United States
Civil rights movements--History.--United States
Collective memory--United States.
Public opinion--United States.
Public opinion--Germany.