Redress for historical injustices in the United States
Subtitle: on reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, and their legacies
By: edited by Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto.
Contributors: Martin, Michael T.; Yaquinto, Marilyn.
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 728
ISBN-13: 9780822340058; 9780822340249
Subjects: African Americans -- Reparations.; African Americans -- Reparations -- History -- Sources.; African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- Sources.; African diaspora.; Reparations for historical injustices.; Social movements.
Genres: Sources.
Description: Comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary documents related to efforts to redress historical wrongs against African Americans. Written by activists and scholars of law, political science, African American studies, philosophy, economics, and history, the twenty-six essays include both previously published articles and pieces written specifically for this volume. Essays theorize the historical and legal bases of claims for redress; examine the history, strengths, and limitations of the reparations movement; and explore its relation to human rights and social justice movements in the United States and abroad. Other essays evaluate the movement’s primary strategies: legislation, litigation, and mobilization. While all of the contributors support the campaign for redress in one way or another, some of them engage with arguments against reparations. Among the fifty-three primary documents included in the volume are federal, state, and municipal acts and resolutions; declarations and statements from organizations including the Black Panther Party and the NAACP; legal briefs and opinions; and findings and directives related to the provision of redress, from the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 to the mandate for the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States is a thorough assessment of the past, present, and future of the modern reparations movement.-- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On redress for racial injustice / Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto; title: Racial injustices in U.S. history and their legacy / David Lyons; title: Race preferences and race privileges / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman; title: A sociology of wealth and racial inequality / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro; title: The case for reparations / Robert Fullinwider; title: Toward a theory of racial reparations / James Bolner; title: The constitutionality of Black reparations / Boris L. Bittker and Roy L. Brooks; title: The theory of restitution : the African American case / Richard America; title: Reparations to African Americans? / J. Angelo Corlett; title: "A day of reckoning" : dreams of reparations / Robin D.G. Kelley; title: Acres, or, An act of bad faith / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie; title: The economic basis for reparations to Black America / Robert S. Browne; title: The political economy of ending racism and the World Conference Against Racism : the economics of reparations / William Darity Jr. and Dania Frank; title: The rise of the reparations movement / Martha Biondi; title: Nineteenth-century New York City's complicity with slavery : documenting the case for reparations / Alan Singer; title: Railroads, race, and reparations / Theodore Kornweibel Jr; title: Reparations : a viable strategy to address the enigma of African American health / David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins; title: Residential segregation and persistent urban poverty / Douglas S. Massey; title: The politics of racial reparations / Charles P. Henry; title: The case for U.S. reparations to African Americans / Adrienne D. Davis; title: The promises and pitfalls of reparations / Yusuf Nuruddin; title: Repatriation as reparations for slavery and Jim Crow / Robert Johnson Jr; title: What's next? Japanese American redress and African American reparations / Eric K. Yamamoto; title: The reparations movement : an assessment of recent and current activism / Sam Anderson, Muntu Matsimela, and Yusuf Nuruddin; title: Reparations : strategic considerations for Black Americans / C.J. Munford; title: Tulsa reparations : the survivors' story / Charles J. Ogletree Jr; title: Race for power : the global balance of power and reparations / Gerald Horne.