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A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation

Author(s) -

Beth Aviv Greenbaum

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

journal of hate studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2169-7442

pISSN - 1540-2126

DOI - 10.33972/jhs.15

Subject(s) - genocide , guard (computer science) , the holocaust , race (biology) , sociology , law , political science , gender studies , computer science , programming language

Driven by thirst after just arriving at Auschwitz, told he can’t even break off an icicle to suck, Primo Levi asks, “Why?” A guard answers, “There is no ‘why’ here.” Why did this happen? Why did the Holocaust happen? Why do other genocides continue to happen? Eric D. Weitz, in his book A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation, suggests a nation’s attempt to create a utopian society leads to genocide. His answer to this unanswerable, almost unaskable question—why—is courageous and fruitful.

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