The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory: A Sociological Analysis

Kendrick Oliver's book examines the American societal response to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in national memory. The work analyzes how the massacre revelations were received and argues that public controversy focused more on the American perpetrators than the Vietnamese victims. The dataset likely contains the textual content of this historical and sociological analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyze themes of national memory and trauma based on the book's examination of how Americans assimilated the war's violence.
• Study public attention and controversy patterns based on the description of how the massacre came to prominence during the trials.
• Investigate cultural narratives of victimhood based on the argument that American soldiers became the central object of popular concern.
• Conduct discourse analysis on the interpretation of the Vietnam conflict as an unhealed national trauma versus a successfully assimilated event.

Strengths

• Authored by a named scholar, Kendrick Oliver, providing a specific academic perspective.
• Focuses on a well-defined historical event, the My Lai massacre, allowing for targeted analysis.
• Platform tags indicate coverage of multiple relevant domains including history, sociology, and political science.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect the specific analytical bias of the single author's interpretation.

Provenance

Source

Kendrick Oliver

Collection Method

Likely a published book or monograph, aggregated by the paperswithcode platform.

Time Range

Covers the My Lai massacre (1968) and its subsequent place in American memory.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

United States and Vietnam.