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The Temptation to Forget: Racism, Anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazism

The Temptation to Forget: Racism, Anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazism

Ferrarotti, Franco
Chekki, Dan A.

Hardcover

Series: Controversies in Science

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0313294437
ISBN13: 9780313294433
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Nov 30 1994
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.67 Depth: 8.79
Language: English

We are nothing in an absolute sense. We are only what we have been-more exactly, what we remember we were. So begins the latest book by one of Europe's most influential modern sociologists, Franco Ferrarotti. In The Temptation to Forget, Ferrarotti examines how many in the waning years of the 20th century are attempting to forget or reinvent history to serve the purposes of ethnic, racial, or religious separation.

Ferrarotti focuses on anti-Semitism and its re-emergence among the Skinheads of the 1980s to draw parallels to how the Holocaust has been reinterpreted/forgotten, and to analyze the implications of this for relations with other ethnic, racial, and religious minorities. Ethnic cleansing may be a new term, but, as Ferrarotti illustrates, it has a long heritage in thought and action. This book will make for provocative reading among professional sociologists and students of contemporary social issues.

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