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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Martin, Michael T. (Editor), Yaquinto, Marilyn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • On redress for racial injustice / Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto.
  • Part 1. Racial inequality and white privilege: 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.
  • Part 2. Law, citizenship, and the state: 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.
  • Part 3. Reparations : formation and modes of redress: "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.
  • Part 4. Case studies of injustice and intervention: 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.
  • Part 5. Mobilizing strategies: 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.