The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Barrett Holmes PitnerTheme:Ethnic Orientation/MulticulturalPublish date:2023-01-31Pages:336
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLC.ISBN-13:9781640095595ISBN-10:1640095594UPC:9781640095595Book Category:Social Science, Philosophy, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, Language, LinguisticsBook Topic:SociolinguisticsSize:8.60 x 5.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.92Product ID:SCKPA89ZW6
In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America An NPR Best Book of the Year
Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name follows Pitner's journey to identify and remedy the 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. For Black Americans, who have endured this atrocity for generations, this erasure dates back to the transatlantic slave trade and reached new resonance in a post-Trump world.
Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name follows Pitner's journey to identify and remedy the 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. For Black Americans, who have endured this atrocity for generations, this erasure dates back to the transatlantic slave trade and reached new resonance in a post-Trump world.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Counterpoint LLC.ISBN-13:9781640095595ISBN-10:1640095594UPC:9781640095595Book Category:Social Science, Philosophy, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Race & Ethnic Relations, Language, LinguisticsBook Topic:SociolinguisticsSize:8.60 x 5.60 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.92Product ID:SCKPA89ZW6
Barrett Holmes Pitner is a columnist, journalist, and philosopher whose work has been published in The Daily Beast, BBC, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He is the founder of The Sustainable Culture Lab, a cultural think tank with the goals of influencing policy by working with legislators and decision makers, and impacting culture at a grassroots level through events, work, and cultural offerings. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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