{"product_id":"the-crime-without-a-name-isbn-9781640094840","title":"The Crime Without a Name","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? \u003ci\u003eThe Crime Without a Name \u003c\/i\u003efollows Pitner’s journey to identify and remedy the linguistic void in how we discuss race and culture in the United States. Ethnocide, first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term \"genocide\"), describes the systemic erasure of a people’s ancestral culture. For Black Americans, who have endured this atrocity for generations, this erasure dates back to the transatlantic slave trade and reached new resonance in a post-Trump world. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Just as the concept of genocide radically reshaped our perception of human rights in the twentieth century, reframing discussions about race and culture in terms of ethnocide can change the way we understand our diverse and rapidly evolving racial and political climate in a time of increased visibility around police brutality and systemic racism. \u003ci\u003eThe Crime Without a Name\u003c\/i\u003e traces the historical origins of ethnocide in the United States, examines the personal, lived consequences of existing within an ongoing erasure, and offers ways for readers to combat and overcome our country’s ethnocidal foundation.\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pitner's insightful, entirely original argument provides a fascinating new way to understand American national culture and to reclaim identities suppressed by ethnocide.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This heavily researched book shimmers with creativity and intelligence, expertly balancing realism, optimism, and honesty . . . [A] well-argued, deeply felt treatise on the links among language, racism, and redemption.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Journalist and philosopher Pitner debuts with an erudite . . . look at how systemic racism imperils Black and Indigenous cultures in the U.S. . . . Mixing philosophy, politics, and memoir, Pitner discusses Marxist and Hegelian dialectics, the 'ethnocidal terror' faced by his Gullah Geechee ancestors in South Carolina, and the links between modern-day gun culture in the U.S. and the legacy of slavery . . . [An] incisive examination of the forces of inequality.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As a work of philosophy, clear-eyed journalism, and a deft understanding of history, \u003ci\u003eThe Crime Without A Name\u003c\/i\u003e provides us with a nuanced paradigm to better understand the United States, to live up to values we so love to espouse, and to wrestle with the hereditary sin of systemic racism. This journey into existentialism as humanity is empathetic, exact, and gorgeous. I love this book.\" —RJ Young, author of \u003ci\u003eLet it Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarrett Holmes Pitner\u003c\/b\u003e is a columnist, journalist, and philosopher whose work has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e, BBC, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He is the founder of The Sustainable Culture Lab, a cultural think tank with the goals of influencing policy by working with legislators and decision makers, and impacting culture at a grassroots level through events, work, and cultural offerings. He lives in Washington, D.C.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302662721765,"sku":"NP9781640094840","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781640094840.jpg?v=1767738872","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-crime-without-a-name-isbn-9781640094840","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}