Honest Patriots Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds

Name: Honest Patriots Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds
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ISBN: 9780195378832

ISBN-10: 0195378830

ISBN-13: 9780195378832

Edition: 2008

Authors: Donald W. Shriver

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Donald Shriver argues that recognition of morally negative events in American history is essential to the health of our society. The failure to acknowledge and repent of these events skews the relations of many Americans to one another and breeds ongoing hostility. To obscure the suffering of anyone's ancestors, says Shriver, is to be blind to the continuing impact of that suffering upon the descendants. Yet our civic identity largely rests on denials, forgetfulness, and inattention to the memories of neighbors whose ancestors suffered great injustices at the hands of some dominant majority. Shriver contends that repentance for these injustices must find a place in our political culture. It…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English