Long overdue : the politics of racial reparations / / Charles P. Henry
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| Autore: |
Henry Charles P. <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Long overdue : the politics of racial reparations / / Charles P. Henry
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.1196/073 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government 20th century |
| United States Race relations | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Long overdue |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-9080-1 |
| 0-8147-3724-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819439603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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