Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy.
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitlers Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence th ...
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Yale historian Jacobson traces the historical process by which American, 'non-white' immigrants literally became Caucasian. A stellar contribution to the emerging field of 'whiteness studies,' this book traces the fluidity of racial categories through literature, popular culture, politics, legal his ...
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