1. Between Jim Crow and the Swastika.
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Floyd-Thomas, Juan M.
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JIM Crow laws , *HOLOCAUST (Jewish theology) , *AFRICAN Americans , *NATIONAL socialism , *LIBERTY - Abstract
This article employs a comparative and interdisciplinary approach that brings together Holocaust studies and Black Church studies in order tomakes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global era. This work is achieved by engaging in an examination regarding the reflections of African Americans in the face of Nazi atrocities towards the Jews. Through their confrontation of Nazism and the Holocaust, African American religio-cultural interpretations of the events surrounding the Shoah enabled the articulation of parallel histories of victimization and liberation associated with the White supremacist terror in the American South. This liberationist work was undertaken even as the Nazis' systematic persecution and murder of millions of people was being construed as 'unique' among historic genocides and other human-perpetrated horrors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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