03821nam 2200781 a 450 991081943960332120200520144314.00-8147-9080-10-8147-3724-210.18574/nyu/9780814790809(CKB)1000000000484161(EBL)866108(OCoLC)779828413(SSID)ssj0000194059(PQKBManifestationID)11937237(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194059(PQKBWorkID)10226416(PQKB)10593587(MiAaPQ)EBC866108(OCoLC)194380107(MdBmJHUP)muse10214(Au-PeEL)EBL866108(CaPaEBR)ebr10210085(DE-B1597)548511(DE-B1597)9780814790809(EXLCZ)99100000000048416120070604d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLong overdue the politics of racial reparations /Charles P. Henry1st ed.New York New York University Pressc20071 online resource (259 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-3741-2 0-8147-3692-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index.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 ReparationsEpilogue: We Are American: The Aftermath of Hurricane KatrinaNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorEver 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 demandsAfrican AmericansReparationsHistoryAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etcHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryReparations for historical injusticesUnited StatesRacismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesSlaveryUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesPolitics and government20th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsAfrican AmericansReparationsHistory.African AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.History.African AmericansCivil rightsHistoryCivil rights movementsHistoryReparations for historical injusticesRacismPolitical aspectsSlaveryHistory.323.1196/073Henry Charles P.1947-1062252MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819439603321Long overdue3994735UNINA