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200 10$aLong overdue $ethe politics of racial reparations /$fCharles P. Henry
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (259 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index.
327   $aContents; 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
327   $aEpilogue: We Are American: The Aftermath of Hurricane KatrinaNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
330   $aEver 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
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606   $aAfrican Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc$xHistory
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606   $aReparations for historical injustices$zUnited States
606   $aRacism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States
606   $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory
607   $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century
607   $aUnited States$xRace relations
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610   $aOverdue.
610   $aarguments.
610   $ahistory.
610   $aplayers.
610   $apolitical.
610   $aprovides.
610   $areparations.
610   $astruggle.
610   $atoward.
610   $aundercurrents.
610   $aunderstanding.
610   $awith.
610   $awork.
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