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

Neiman, Susan, 1955- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

[London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, [2019] [© 2019]

415 Seiten

Englisch

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [395]-398

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet ; BfZ (Rechtsgrundlage SLG). WLB Stuttgart

Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Learning from the Germans: race and the memory of evil by Susan Neiman (review)] / Berg, Manfred

978-0-241-26286-3 (hbk : £20.00); 0-241-26286-0

9780241262863

OCoLC: 1125271318     

LB 63610  | LB 31960      Ähnliche Literatur

305.8

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-SKA-DE-11

LOC-SH: Denazification -- Germany ; Collective memory -- Germany ; National socialism -- Public opinion ; African Americans -- Crimes against -- Public opinion ; Racism -- United States -- Public opinion ; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History ; Collective memory -- United States

Civil rights movements ; Collective memory ; Denazification ; National socialism ; Public opinion ; Racism ; Public opinion ; Kolonialismus ; Rassismus ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Germany ; United States ; Deutschland ; USA ; History

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.

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"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