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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... Recent Renascence of Reparations Debate and Refined Reparations Theory 3. The Modern Black Reparations Movement: Why Now, Why, and What? 55 4. Against Reparations 75 Part III. Implementing Reparations: Reparations Practice 5. Evaluating ...
... Recent Renascence of Reparations Debate and Refined Reparations Theory 3. The Modern Black Reparations Movement: Why Now, Why, and What? 55 4. Against Reparations 75 Part III. Implementing Reparations: Reparations Practice 5. Evaluating ...
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... recently, many apologies. Moreover, legislatures have frequently taken action to expose and repair past damage—such as the 1946 federal legislation to compensate Native tribes for their land claims and Florida's 1994 act to provide ...
... recently, many apologies. Moreover, legislatures have frequently taken action to expose and repair past damage—such as the 1946 federal legislation to compensate Native tribes for their land claims and Florida's 1994 act to provide ...
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... to Native Americans and to survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and Eastern European communism. Recently, opponents of reparations, or “reparations skeptics,” have begun to take reparations arguments seriously and to question the introduction ...
... to Native Americans and to survivors of the Nazi Holocaust and Eastern European communism. Recently, opponents of reparations, or “reparations skeptics,” have begun to take reparations arguments seriously and to question the introduction ...
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... recent past (known as the statute of limitations). Until now, lawsuits have been remarkably ineffective. In 1996, in the case of Cato v. United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals (the court just below the U.S. Supreme Court) dismissed a ...
... recent past (known as the statute of limitations). Until now, lawsuits have been remarkably ineffective. In 1996, in the case of Cato v. United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals (the court just below the U.S. Supreme Court) dismissed a ...
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... recently emphasized four features of reparations: 1. A focus on the past to account for the present 2. A focus on the present, to reveal the continuing existence of race-based discrimination 3. An accounting of the past harms or ...
... recently emphasized four features of reparations: 1. A focus on the past to account for the present 2. A focus on the present, to reveal the continuing existence of race-based discrimination 3. An accounting of the past harms or ...
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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