Title: Making whole what has been smashed : on reparations politics /
Authors: Torpey, John C.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Reparations for historical injustices Social aspects.
Abstract: "This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment by states and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which the concern with the past may represent a departure from the traditionally future-oriented stance of progressive politics."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: The surfacing of subterranean history -- An anatomy of reparations politics -- Commemoration, redress, and reconciliation : the cases of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians -- Forty acres : the case of reparations for Black Americans -- Post-colonial reparations : reparations politics in post-apartheid Namibia and South Africa.