Redress for historical injustices in the United States : on reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and their legacies

Redress for historical injustices in the United States : on reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and their legacies / edited by Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto.

A collection of seminal essays that examines the arguments in favor of the redress movement in the United States.

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Other Authors: Martin, Michael T. (Editor), Yaquinto, Marilyn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
African Americans > Reparations.
African Americans > Reparations > History > Sources.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > Sources.
African diaspora.
Reparations for historical injustices.
Social movements.
social movements.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
African Americans > Reparations
African diaspora
Reparations for historical injustices
Social movements
Ungerechtigkeit
Wiedergutmachung
USA
Schwärze
History
Sources
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Table of Contents:
  • On redress for racial injustice / Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto
  • Racial injustices in U.S. history and their legacy / David Lyons
  • Race preferences and race privileges / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman
  • A sociology of wealth and racial inequality / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro
  • The case for reparations / Robert Fullinwider
  • Toward a theory of racial reparations / James Bolner
  • The constitutionality of Black reparations / Boris L. Bittker and Roy L. Brooks
  • The theory of restitution: the African American case / Richard America
  • Reparations to African Americans? / J. Angelo Corlett
  • "A day of reckoning": dreams of reparations / Robin D.G. Kelley
  • Forty acres, or, An act of bad faith / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
  • The economic basis for reparations to Black America / Robert S. Browne
  • The political economy of ending racism and the World Conference against Racism: the economics of reparations / William Darity Jr. and Dania Frank
  • The rise of the reparations movement / Martha Biondi
  • Nineteenth-century New York City's complicity with slavery: documenting the case for reparations / Alan Singer
  • Railroads, race, and reparations / Theodore Kornweibel Jr.
  • Reparations: a viable strategy to address the enigma of African American health / David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins
  • Residential segregation and persistent urban poverty / Douglas S. Massey
  • The politics of racial reparations / Charles P. Henry
  • The case for U.S. reparations to African Americans / Adrienne D. Davis
  • The promises and pitfalls of reparations / Yusuf Nuruddin
  • Repatriation as reparations for slavery and Jim Crow / Robert Johnson Jr.
  • What's next? Japanese American redress and African American reparations / Eric K. Yamamoto
  • The reparations movement: an assessment of recent and current activism / Sam Anderson, Muntu Matsimela, and Yusuf Nuruddin
  • Reparations: strategic considerations for Black Americans / C.J. Munford
  • Tulsa reparations: the survivors' story / Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
  • Race for power: the global balance of power and reparations / Gerald Horne.

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