The genocide reader : the politics of ethnicity and extermination /

Essays and articles discuss the meaning of genocide, the destruction of European Jews, European colonialism, and the problems of the international community dealing with the politics of ethnicity.

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Other Authors: McCuen, Marnie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hudson, Wis. : GEM Publications, ©2000.
Series:Ideas in conflict series
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Table of Contents:
  • Contemporary understanding of genocide: concepts and questions / Peter J. Stoett
  • Genocide: a modern crime, global consequences / Raphael Lemkin
  • Ordinary Germans, extraordinary antisemitism / Daniel J. Goldhagen
  • Ordinary Germans, extraordinary conditions / Victoria J. Barnett
  • Holocaust denial: recognizing the unique fate of the Jews / Lucy S. Dawidowicz
  • Holocaust denial: reclaiming the invisible victims / Ward Churchill
  • The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
  • The most horrendous holocaust in history: the point / Winona LaDuke
  • Indians lost the war: the counterpoint / Jeffrey Hart
  • Guatemalan genocide: the point / Commission on Historical Clarification
  • Guatemalan genocide: the counterpoint / Steve Salisbury
  • Cultural genocide: Canada's struggle to repair the past / Michael Downey
  • Cultural genocide: Canada puts race before children's welfare / Deborah Jones
  • Inside Pol Pot's Cambodia, 1975-1979 / John Barron
  • Killing birds: the U.S. and Cambodia, 1969-1973 / Ben Kiernan
  • Pol Pot's death and his place in history / Jeffrey Hart
  • Pol Pot's death and his place in media / Edward S. Herman
  • A genocidal regime: the point / David P. Chandler
  • A genocidal regime: the counterpoint / Sidney Schanberg
  • The causes of Rwandan genocide: ethnic rivalry / Yenwith K. Whitney
  • The causes of Rwandan genocide: political power / Alan Zarembo
  • The causes of Rwandan genocide: economics / Emmanuel Ohajan
  • Intervention: the church's response / Carole Collins
  • Intervention: the failure of the international community / Stephen J. Pope
  • Intervention: genocide prevention is needed / Robert J. White.