The crime without a name : ethnocide and the erasure of culture in America / Barrett Holmes Pitner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitner, Barrett Holmes, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Racism in language--United States.

Racism in language.

Language and culture--United States.

Language and culture.

United States.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

327 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.

Summary:

"In this incisive blend of personal narrative and deep philosophical and linguistic inquiry, journalist, filmmaker, and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner identifies a linguistic void in how we discuss race and culture in the United States. "Ethnocide," first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term genocide), describes the systemic erasure of a people's ancestral culture. Dating back to the cross-Atlantic slave trade and reaching new resonance under Donald Trump, Black Americans have endured this atrocity for generations. The Crime Without a Name guides readers through the historical origins of ethnocide in the United States, while examining the personal, lived consequences of existing within an ongoing erasure. Just as the concept of genocide radically reshaped our perception of human rights in the 20th century, reframing our discussions about race and culture in terms of ethnocide can change the way we think about our diverse and rapidly evolving racial and political climate in a time of increased visibility around police brutality and systemic racism, as well as the significance and necessity of the Black vote in American politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Discovering Ethnocide

2. Polder en and Cultivating Culture

3. Waiting for Lucky

4. Destroying Existence

5. Bad Faith and the Facade of Freedom

6. The Dialectic of Geistmord

7. The Banality of American Evil

8. Cultural Vulgarity and Destroying Dignity

9. The Language of American Fascism

10. The Narrative of the Ethnocidee

11. Better Than Utopia

12. Cultivating Empathy

13. Emancipation and Creating Culture

14. A Sustainable Good Place.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781640094840

1640094849

OCLC:

1236090440

Publisher Number:

99988778985