While Statues Sleep
Thomas Laqueur, 18 June 2020
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman.
Allen Lane, 415 pp., £20, August 2019,978 0 241 26286 3 Show More
by Susan Neiman.
Allen Lane, 415 pp., £20, August 2019,
“... was somehow the cause of the war.’Neiman mentions the so-called Dunning School, named after William Dunning, a professor at Columbia at the turn of the 20th century, who, with his followers, disparaged the efforts made during the Reconstruction to establish the civil and economic rights (forty acres and a mule) of former slaves and gave intellectual ... ”