Title: Racist symbols and reparations
First published: 1998
Description: In this book, George Schedler offers fresh moral and legal perspectives on two legacies of the Civil War: the adoption of the Confederate battle flag by Southern states and the question of reparations to African Americans. Schedler demonstrates that constitutional objections to the Southern states' display of the battle flag are without merit, arguing that either the flag is not a racist symbol or there is a similar case for attaching racist significance to the Stars and Stripes.

Drawing on scholarship of the Civil War and its aftermath, the author concludes that the Confederate battle flag can actually be seen as a multicultural symbol. Schedler's analysis of reparations focuses on the principle that whatever the enslaved would have earned and enjoyed had they not been enslaved should determine compensation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the Civil War, moral philosophy, and constitutional law.
Subjects: African Americans, Claims, Compensation (Law), Flags, History, Moral and ethical aspects, Racism, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658, Rassismus, Flagge, Reparationen, Sezessionskrieg, Reparations, Ethics, Südstaaten, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, african americans, United states, race relations, Flags, united states, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, Signs and symbols, War reparations, Reparations for historical injustices
Places: Confederate States of America, United States
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E540.N3 S34 1998