BIASES: "The Challenge of U.S. Racism and the Nazi Race Laws in 21st Century America"
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 • 4 Adar 5781
7:30 PM - 9:00 PMZoomPlease join us for a fascinating presentation from Tom White, Coordinator of Educational Outreach at Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene State College, NH.
A GRIPPING HISTORICAL COMPARE & CONTRAST
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Learn how Hitler used our American Immigration and race Laws and practices to marginalize the Jews of Germany turning us into their “Blacks”
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Learn how German and American eugenicists rationalized race law
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Realize how, in the 1930’s, American embrace of the 'Lost Cause' myth of the Civil War allowed ourselves to see our brand of racism as “good”
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Note that while Germans have come to focus their memorial landscape on the narrative of the victims, the American narrative still glorifies the perpetrator.
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How does Democracy pose a direct threat to white nationalism and fascism?
Click Here to read Tom White's essay
Registration closes at 5pm on the day of the event
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