LEADER 04236nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910449834003321 005 20210611234922.0 010 $a0-520-93973-5 010 $a1-4175-4077-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520939738 035 $a(CKB)1000000000000769 035 $a(EBL)224042 035 $a(OCoLC)70739680 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107376 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11124956 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107376 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10015494 035 $a(PQKB)11512656 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056067 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224042 035 $a(DE-B1597)520181 035 $a(OCoLC)56607522 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520939738 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224042 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10064731 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000000769 100 $a20040108d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAtonement and forgiveness$b[electronic resource] $ea new model for black reparations /$fRoy L. Brooks 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (347 p.) 300 $a"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies." 311 0 $a0-520-24813-9 311 0 $a0-520-23941-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$t1. The Purpose and History of the Black Redress Movement --$t2. Harms to Slaves and Free Blacks --$t3. Harms to Descendants --$t4. The Tort Model --$t5. The Atonement Model --$t6. Opposing Arguments --$tEPILOGUE --$tAppendix 1: Selected List of Other Atrocities --$tAppendix 2: Summary of the Negotiations That Led to Germany's Foundation Law --$tNOTES --$tSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --$tCASES --$tSTATUTES --$tINDEX 330 $aRoy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. Atonement and Forgiveness shifts the focus of the issue from the backward-looking question of compensation for victims to a more forward-looking racial reconciliation. Offering a comprehensive discussion of the history of the black redress movement, this book puts forward a powerful new plan for repairing the damaged relationship between the federal government and black Americans in the aftermath of 240 years of slavery and another 100 years of government-sanctioned racial segregation. Key to Brooks's vision is the government's clear signal that it understands the magnitude of the atrocity it committed against an innocent people, that it takes full responsibility, and that it publicly requests forgiveness-in other words, that it apologizes. The government must make that apology believable, Brooks explains, by a tangible act that turns the rhetoric of apology into a meaningful, material reality, that is, by reparation. Apology and reparation together constitute atonement. Atonement, in turn, imposes a reciprocal civic obligation on black Americans to forgive, which allows black Americans to start relinquishing racial resentment and to begin trusting the government's commitment to racial equality. Brooks's bold proposal situates the argument for reparations within a larger, international framework-namely, a post-Holocaust vision of government responsibility for genocide, slavery, apartheid, and similar acts of injustice. Atonement and Forgiveness makes a passionate, convincing case that only with this spirit of heightened morality, identity, egalitarianism, and restorative justice can genuine racial reconciliation take place in America. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xReparations 606 $aAtonement 606 $aGovernment liability$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xReparations. 615 0$aAtonement. 615 0$aGovernment liability 676 $a973/.049673 700 $aBrooks$b Roy L$g(Roy Lavon),$f1950-$0256765 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449834003321 996 $aAtonement and forgiveness$92477397 997 $aUNINA