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

Publisher	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
	©2019.

ITEM LOC	CALL #	STATUS
Iron River adult nonfiction	305.8 NEI	AVAILABLE

Edition	First edition.
Descript	415 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-398) and index.
Contents	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.
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."--Provided by publisher.
Note	Nonfiction.
Subject	Collective memory -- Germany.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Germany -- Public opinion.
	National socialism -- Public opinion.
	Denazification -- Germany.
	African Americans -- Crimes against -- Public opinion.
	Racism -- United States -- Public opinion.
	Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
	Collective memory -- United States.
	Public opinion -- United States.
	Public opinion -- Germany.
	Minority groups.
	Black people.
	BIPOC.
	Minorities.
Added Title	Race and the memory of evil.
ISBN/ISSN	9780374184469 (hardcover)
	0374184461 (hardcover)