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

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

Alternate Title
Race and the memory of evil

By
Neiman, Susan.

Publication Date
2019

Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

Edition
First edition.

Physical Description
415 p.

Subject Term
Collective memory -- Germany.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany.
 
National socialism -- Germany.
 
Denazification.
 
African Americans -- Crimes against.
 
Racism -- United States.
 
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
 
Public opinion -- United States.
 
Public opinion -- Germany.

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary
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.

Language
English

ISBN
9780374184469


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