Barrett Holmes Pitner

"Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name follows 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...