Learning From the Germans : : Race and the Memory of Evil

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Call Number: 305.8 Ne, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Race & Ethnicity / Neiman, Susan
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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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.

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Timely topic with many digressions submitted by mowjac on December 11, 2020, 3:20pm Germany and the Holocaust, America and slavery, how have they each addressed these legacies? This is what this book discusses, but because Neiman is a philosopher rather than a historian, there are many digressions. I would have appreciated fewer of those, hence the 4 stars over 5. I recommend this to anyone desiring a big picture view of American racism and ways of approaching the healing of it.