Little Matter of Genocide Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present

Name: Little Matter of Genocide Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780872863231

ISBN-10: 0872863239

ISBN-13: 9780872863231

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Authors: Ward Churchill

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Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America. Here, he explores the history of holocaust and denial in this hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and continuing on into the present. He frames the matter by examining both "revisionist" denial of the nazi-perpatrated Holocaust and the opposing claim of its exclusive "uniqueness," using the full scope of what happened in Europe as a backdrop against which to demonstrate that genocide is precisely what has been-and still is-carried out against the American Indians. Churchill lays bare the means by which many of these realities have remained hidden,…

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List price: $24.95
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 1/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 531
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues. He is a Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, a leading member of AIM, and the author of numerous books, including A Little Matter of Genocide , Struggle for the Land , and Fantasies of the Master Race .



Foreword: What Every Indian Knows



Preface



Introduction: Encountering the American Holocaust: The Politics of Affirmation and Denial



Assaults on Truth and Memory: Holocaust Denial in Context


Lie for Lie: Linkages between Holocaust Deniers and Proponents of the "Uniqueness of the Jewish Experience in World War II"


Deconstructing the Columbus Myth: Was the "Great Discoverer" Italian or Spanish, Nazi or Jew?


Genocide in the Americas: Landmarks from North and South America, 1492-1992


"Nits Make Lice": The Extermination of North American Indians, 1607-1996


Cold War Impacts on Native North America: The Political Economy of Radioactive Colonization


The United States and the Genocide Convention: The Saga of an Outlaw State, 1948-1988


Defining the Unthinkable: Towards a Viable Understanding of Genocide


Bibliography


Index