Redress for historical injustices in the United States : on reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and their legacies /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law.
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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.