TY - BOOK AU - Neiman,Susan TI - Learning from the Germans: race and the memory of evil SN - 9780374184469 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Collective memory KW - Germany KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Atrocities KW - Public opinion KW - National socialism KW - Denazification KW - African Americans KW - Crimes against KW - Racism KW - United States KW - Civil rights movements KW - History N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -