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- Title
America's Unfinished Racial Reconciliation.
- Authors
GUSHEE, DAVID PAUL
- Abstract
The article discusses reconciliation between white and black people in the U.S and the collective memory of the Holocaust and the civil rights movement in that country. The political response to the history of U.S. slavery and segregation is criticized, the history of racial discrimination and segregation is examined, and the texts and support of 2008 and 2009 legislation apologizing for racism from the Senate and House of Representatives are analyzed. The legal risks for governments admitting to and apologizing for past human rights violations are also described and the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is examined.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RECONCILIATION; RACE relations in the United States; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, &; collective memory; COLLECTIVE memory; MARTIN Luther King, Jr., Day; CIVIL rights movements; HUMAN rights violations; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); SEGREGATION
- Publication
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte: Internationale Zeitschrift für Theologie und Geschichtswissenschaft, 2013, Vol 26, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
0932-9951
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/kize.2013.26.1.73