1. Carol Anderson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tim Wise, and Cornel West are only the first names that come to mind.
2. Cornell Belcher, A Black Man in the White House (Walter Street Press, 2016), p. 128ff.
3. A similar poll conducted in August 2018 by The Economist/YouGov confirmed this again.
4. Belcher, A Black Man in the White House, p. 164.
5. George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism,” in Polemik, October 1945.
6. Jan Plamper, Das neue Wir: Eine andere Geschichte der Deutschen (Fischer Verlag, 2019).
7. Michael Wildt, “Droht Deutschland ein neues 1933?,” Die Zeit, September 8, 2018. www.zeit.de/wissen/geschichte/2018-09/chemnitz-weimarer-republik-nazizeit-vergleich-rechtsextremismus/komplettansicht (accessed October 22, 2018).
8. See Franziska Schreiber, Inside AfD (Europea Verlag, 2018).
9. See Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz, “Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime,” May 21, 2018. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3082972.
10. See Schreiber, Inside AfD.
11. Wolfgang Engler and Jana Hensel, Wer wir sind: die Erfahrung, Ostdeutsch zu sein (Aufbau Verlag, 2018).
12. See also Robin Alexander, Die Getriebenden: Merkel und die Flüchtlingspolitik (Siedler, 2017).
13. Quoted in W.E.B. Du Bois, John Brown, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 45.
14. Tzvetan Todorov, Memory as a Remedy for Evil (Seagull Books, 2010), p. 80.
15. David Rieff, In Praise of Forgetting (Yale University Press, 2016), p. 28. Quote slightly modified.
16. Ibid., p. 141.
17. Avishai Margalit, The Ethics of Memory (Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 83.
18. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. James M. Washington (HarperCollins, 1991), p. 297.
19. Branko Milanovic, “A Short History of Global Inequality: The Past Two Centuries,” in Explorations in Economic History, vol. 48, no. 4 (Elsevier, 2011), pp. 494–506.
20. See Susan Neiman, Why Grow Up? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016).
21. Mark Lilla, The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (HarperCollins, 2017).
22. See Todd Gitlin, The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars (Henry Holt and Company, 1996); and Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (Harvard University Press, 1999).
23. Cornel West, “The New Cultural Politics of Difference,” in The Cornel West Reader (Basic Civitas Books, 1999).
24. Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Lies That Bind (Liveright, 2018), p. 232.
25. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Walter Kaufmann (Vintage Books, 1989), Part IV, Aphorism 68.
26. See Rorty, Achieving Our Country.
27. Navid Kermani, “Auschwitz Morgen,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 7, 2017.
28. See, for example, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., PBS.org.
29. Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others (Harvard University Press, 2017), p. 37.