Leading up to World War II, two Polish men witnessed the targeted
extermination of Jews under Adolf Hitler and the German Reich
before the reality of the Holocaust was widely known. Raphael
Lemkin, a ...Jewish lawyer who coined the term "genocide," and Jan
Karski, a Catholic member of the Polish resistance, independently
shared this knowledge with Winston Churchill and Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Having heard false rumors of wartime atrocities before,
the leaders met the messengers with disbelief and inaction, leading
to the eventual murder of more than six million people.
Messengers of Disaster draws upon little-known texts from
an array of archives, including the International Committee of the
Red Cross in Geneva and the International Tracing Service in Bad
Arolsen. Carrying the knowledge of disaster took a toll on Lemkin
and Karski, but their work prepared the way for the United Nations
to unanimously adopt the first human rights convention in 1948 and
influenced the language we use to talk about genocide today.
Annette Becker's detailed study of these two important figures
illuminates how distortions of fact can lead people to deny
knowledge of what is happening in front of their own eyes.
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In Beau Monde on Empire's Edge, Mayhill C. Fowler tells the story of the rise and fall of a group of men who created culture both Soviet and Ukrainian. This collective biography showcases new aspects ...of the politics of cultural production in the Soviet Union by focusing on theater and on the multi-ethnic borderlands. Unlike their contemporaries in Moscow or Leningrad, these artists from the regions have been all but forgotten despite the quality of their art. Beau Monde restores the periphery to the center of Soviet culture. Sources in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Yiddish highlight the important multi-ethnic context and the challenges inherent in constructing Ukrainian culture in a place of Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews. Beau Monde on Empire's Edge traces the growing overlap between the arts and the state in the early Soviet years, and explains the intertwining of politics and culture in the region today.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the ...turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon ofpredatory inclusion. Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners. The federal government guaranteed urban mortgages in an attempt to overcome resistance to lending to Black buyers - as if unprofitability, rather than racism, was the cause of housing segregation. Bankers, investors, and real estate agents took advantage of the perverse incentives, targeting the Black women most likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure, multiplying their profits. As a result, by the end of the 1970s, the nation's first programs to encourage Black homeownership ended with tens of thousands of foreclosures in Black communities across the country. The push to uplift Black homeownership had descended into a goldmine for realtors and mortgage lenders, and a ready-made cudgel for the champions of deregulation to wield against government intervention of any kind. Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans,Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.
Throughout the 1930s, the kafes (the lattice screens on windows) became a public concern in Turkey. The medical as well as ideological connotations of kafes led to widespread campaigns, and it was ...banned by many local authorities for sanitary reasons. Articles published in the Turkish media at this time link the kafes (as an architectural element with religious and political connotations) to disease and poor health, to the healing powers of sunlight, and to the symbolic and perceived bonds between bodies and buildings.
In Unbecoming Language, Annabel L. Kim examines a corpus of French literature writing against difference. Inaugurated by Nathalie Sarraute and sustained in the work of Monique Wittig and Anne ...Garréta, this corpus highlights three generations of the twentieth and recent twenty-first centuries and the direct chain of influence between them. Kim considers these writers, and the story of literature’s political potential, as a way of rereading and reinterpreting each writer’s individual corpus—rearticulating the strain of anti-difference feminist thought that has been largely forgotten in our (Anglo-American) histories of French feminisms.
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