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In 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. 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. Dating back to the transatlantic slave trade and reaching new resonance in a post-Trump world, Black Americans have endured this atrocity for generations. The Crime Without a Name guides readers through: In 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. 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.