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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780602503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8223-4024-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (725 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinMichael T

YaquintoMarilyn

Disciplina

362.84/96073

Soggetti

African Americans - Reparations

African Americans - Reparations - History

African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History

African diaspora

Reparations for historical injustices

Social movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [673]-681) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 ... [et al.] -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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