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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819439603321

Autore

Henry Charles P. <1947->

Titolo

Long overdue : the politics of racial reparations / / Charles P. Henry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-9080-1

0-8147-3724-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Disciplina

323.1196/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Reparations - History

African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

Reparations for historical injustices - United States

Racism - Political aspects - United States

Slavery - United States - History

United States Politics and government 20th century

United States Race relations

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. 223-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Insufficient Funds; 1 A Political and Legal History of Reparations and Race Relations; 2 From Forty Acres to "We Must Have Our Money": Reparations from Antebellum to Civil Rights America; 3 A Winning Case: Comparing the Rosewood and Greenwood Reparations Claims; 4 The Contemporary Debate: The Legacy of Slavery and the Antireparations Movement; 5 Reparations Go Global: Pan Africanism and the World Conference against Racism; 6 A True Revolution of Values: Changing the Culture and Politics of Reparations

Epilogue: We Are American: The Aftermath of Hurricane KatrinaNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Ever since the unfulfilled promise of "forty acres and a mule," America has consistently failed to confront the issue of racial injustice. Exploring why America has failed to compensate Black Americans for



the wrongs of slavery, Long Overdue provides a history of the racial reparations movement and shows why it is an idea whose time has come. Martin Luther King, Jr., remarked in his "I Have a Dream" speech that America has given Black citizens a "bad check" marked "insufficient funds." Yet apart from a few Black nationalists, the call for reparations has been peripheral to Black policy demands