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Title 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
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2007
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 702 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary A collection of seminal essays that examines the arguments in favor of the redress movement in the United States
Analysis African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. History Sources
African Americans Reparations
African Americans Reparations History Sources
African diaspora
Reparations for historical injustices
Schwarze
Social movements
USA
Ungerechtigkeit
Wiedergutmachung
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 673-681) and index
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Subject 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
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Martin, Michael T., editor.
Yaquinto, Marilyn, editor.
ISBN 9780822389811
0822389819