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Susan Neiman

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How to Confront a Racist National History

Susan Neiman, a philosopher who studies Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past, examines how the United States can remember slavery and segregation.

by Susan Neiman, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker
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on July 6, 2020
Working Off the Past, from Atlanta to Berlin

A Jewish American reflects on a life spent amidst the ghosts of the American South and the former capital of the Reich.

by Susan Neiman via New York Review of Books
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on August 26, 2019

Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

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A slave in chains behind an American flag

Germany Faced its Horrible Past. Can We Do the Same?

For too long, we've ignored our real history. We must face where truth can take us.

by Michele Norris via Washington Post on June 3, 2021

1886 British Empire Map

Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

by Priya Satia via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 16, 2021

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