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Why You Should Ask Your Family Questions About The Past
The past is like the present and the future, far from rigid. It is ever-changing and always moving depending on the perspective of the narrator. In school I was taught about history in a standardized and fixed way, learning so-called key moments and key figures. Which moments and figures do we consider key when learning about history?
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Memory Laws in France and their Implications: Institutionalizing Social Harmony
In July of 1990, France’s Congress passed a landmark piece of legislation that marked the front page of newspapers across the world. One of the world’s most influential nations with an intricate history of revolution, colonialism, and multiculturalism, declared the denial of the Jewish Holocaust as a criminal offense.
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Beyond Stereotypes: How Artists of Turkish Descent Deal with Identity in Germany
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A Kosher Shrimp? The New Museum in the Context of Holocaust Tourism in Poland
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Gay Homeless Youth and their Lives on the Streets of New York City
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“Change or Die”? Gentrification in Brooklyn
Thirty years ago, New York was a dying city. Today after much economic change, decreased crime and eventual rise in costs of living in Manhattan, the highly paid young professionals (yuppies) began to turn their eyes to the other side of the East River: to Brooklyn.
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The Role of Éducation Civique in the Creation of French Citoyens
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Politics of Invisibility: The Political Underrepresentation of Chinese Communities in France
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Why not? A Critical Look at Upward Mobility Within Berlin's Impermeable Education System
This article analyses the impact of the German education system on upward mobility, more specifically its tier track system. Berlin served as the case study for the three authors.
Humanity in Action Press
Discover some of the publications from our in-house publisher:
On People with Disabilities
What would happen if Hermione Granger was a girl with a disability? Why is disability is rarely discussed in terms of diversity? Who are people with disabilities?
Pre-Genocide - Warnings and Readiness to Protect
An anthology of personal interpretations, by researchers and writers, about alarm bells and the readiness to protect prior to genocides. The essays in this volume focus on the 1930s before the Holocaust in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark - as well as the years before the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Kurdistan, Rwanda and Bosnia.
Shifting Paradigms: Humanity in Action Senior Fellows on Policy and Pluralism Across Borders
Shifting Paradigms is a volume of diverse articles on cross-border policy and pluralism written by Humanity in Action Senior Fellows.
Two Trees in Jerusalem
Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen in her touching account "Two Trees in Jerusalem" tells about the resistance of her parents, Donata and Eberhard Helmrich, against the horrors of National Socialism.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Diplomacy and Diversity
Recognizing the intensification of transnational conflicts that both violently divide and intimately link our global communities, this book is a collection of diverse essays, which tackle international relations and migration.
Reflections on the Holocaust
The first book published by Humanity in Action, Reflections on the Holocaust is a collection of essays from Humanity in Action Fellows, Senior Fellows, Board members and lecturers from 1997 to 2010.