Night Assignment and Links

Class Assignment: 

How was the Holocaust possible?
Why is it important not to forget the Holocaust?
Is hatred innate in humans?
Can we overcome hatred and prejudice?


Night Text in PDF
Night Personal Response Paper
 Night Handout and Assignment

Articles

Rats Can Teach Us Empathy
What Makes Us Evil: Psychological Experiments
Rethinking Stanley Milgram's Experiment
Article on Jane Elliot in Smithsonian Magazine
Psychological Roots of Bias and Racism 
How Kids Learn Prejudice
We Can Evolve from Hatred to Empathy
The Pyramid of Hate
How to Recognize Bias and Propaganda: University of Michigan
Why We Must Learn about the Holocaust
Have People Forgotten the Holocaust?
Americans Have Become Less Biased
Multicultural Hawaii a Model for Less Racism
Jim Crow's Link to Nazi Hatred
Slavery and the Holocaust: American and German Reactions
Why Do People Believe Things That Are Not True?
Witches and Persecution of Innocents
Lingering Effects of Trauma Through Generations
Recent ICE Arrests in Sanctuary Cities
Nazi Ideals and American Eugenics Movement
A Word Can Destroy

Fiction and Non-Fiction

List of Important Books about the Holocaust
The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Audio Book
My Friend Shari's Story

One of our great problems is to see clearly what we have to resist. I would say at the moment that we have to understand better than we do the war mentality. If we do not understand it, we will run the risk of contributing to its confusions...The great danger is that under the pressure of anxiety and fear, the alternation of crisis and relaxation and new crisis, the people of the world will come to accept gradually the idea of war, the idea of submission to total power and the abdication of reason, spirit and individual conscience. The great peril is the deadening of conscience.   
–Thomas Merton, letter, January, 1962

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