Reparations: Pro and ConToday, the debate over reparations--whether African-Americans should be compensated for decades of racial subjugation--stands as the most racially divisive issue in American politics. In this short, definitive work, Alfred L. Brophy, a leading expert on racial violence, traces the reparations issue from the 1820s to the present in order to assess the arguments on both sides of the current debate. Taking us inside litigation and legislatures past and present; examining failed and successful lawsuits; and exploring reparations actions by legislatures, newspapers, schools, businesses, and truth commissions, this book offers a valuable historical and legal perspective for reparations advocates and critics alike. "A book about reparations and its contentious qualities that is a must-read for all. If you want to know the essence of the debate, this book is for you." --Charles K. Ogletree, Jr., Harvard Law School |
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... Tulsa riot lawsuit, along with Agniezska Fryzman, Scott Ellsworth, Kimberly Ellis, and Michele Roberts. My other friends from the reparations world, including Roy Brooks, Alfreda Robinson, Mark Gibney, Angela Kupenda, Rhonda McGee ...
... Tulsa riot lawsuit, along with Agniezska Fryzman, Scott Ellsworth, Kimberly Ellis, and Michele Roberts. My other friends from the reparations world, including Roy Brooks, Alfreda Robinson, Mark Gibney, Angela Kupenda, Rhonda McGee ...
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... Tulsa Riot of 1921—Race, Reparations, Reconciliation, my editor, Dedi Felman (this time with help from Stephen Holtje and six anonymous readers), has mightily improved the manuscript. She first suggested the idea of a primer on ...
... Tulsa Riot of 1921—Race, Reparations, Reconciliation, my editor, Dedi Felman (this time with help from Stephen Holtje and six anonymous readers), has mightily improved the manuscript. She first suggested the idea of a primer on ...
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... Tulsa race riot of 1921 (dismissed in 2004). Bills have been introduced in Congress every term since 1989. There has been a law passed by the state of California to require insurance companies to disclose policies written on slaves ...
... Tulsa race riot of 1921 (dismissed in 2004). Bills have been introduced in Congress every term since 1989. There has been a law passed by the state of California to require insurance companies to disclose policies written on slaves ...
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... Tulsa race riot of 1921, where there should be reparations.3 Yet, much of that scholarship was critical of the existing system, critical of American law's seeming inability to provide a language for thinking about reparations. As other ...
... Tulsa race riot of 1921, where there should be reparations.3 Yet, much of that scholarship was critical of the existing system, critical of American law's seeming inability to provide a language for thinking about reparations. As other ...
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... Tulsa race riot; it was dismissed in March 2004.8 The future of the movement will be determined in large part by how successfully reparations proponents can make a compelling moral argument for reparations and promote political support ...
... Tulsa race riot; it was dismissed in March 2004.8 The future of the movement will be determined in large part by how successfully reparations proponents can make a compelling moral argument for reparations and promote political support ...
Contents
The Recent Renascence of Reparations Debate and Refined Reparations Theory | 53 |
Reparations Practice | 95 |
Part IV Possibilities for the Future | 165 |
Appendices Documents Related to Reparations | 181 |
Notes | 213 |
For Further Reading | 277 |
Index | 281 |
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