ISBN:
9781250750112
Language:
English
Pages:
422 Seiten
Edition:
First Picador paperback edition
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Collective memory
;
World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities
;
Public opinion
;
National socialism Public opinion
;
Denazification
;
African Americans Public opinion
;
Racism Public opinion
;
Civil rights movements History
;
Collective memory
;
Public opinion
;
Public opinion
;
USA
;
Deutschland
;
Rassismus
;
Nationalsozialismus
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
"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
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