Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-405) and index.

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.

As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman asks what we can learn from the Germans about confronting the evils of the past.

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