Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil /
In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its...
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New York :
Picador,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First Picador paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: German lessons
- On the use and abuse of historical comparison
- Sins of the fathers
- Cold War memory
- Part two: Southern discomfort
- Everybody knows about Mississippi
- Lost causes
- Faces of Emmett Till
- Part three: Setting things straight
- Monumental recognition
- Rights and reparations
- In place of conclusions
- Afterword to the 2020 paperback edition.