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Book SynopsisBrings together primary and secondary documents related to the reparations movement in the United States. While the movement is united in its goal of "repairing" the injustices to African Americans that have followed from the long history of slavery and Jim Crow, this title reveals the range of opinions as to the form that repair might take.
Trade Review“A truly impressive achievement in its range of approaches, depth of analysis, and variety of sources, this book should immediately become the definitive text on the subject of reparations for black Americans.”— Charles W. Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University
“It will be far harder to dismiss the deeply resonant and persistent demand for reparations in the wake of this remarkable collection of interdisciplinary research and historical documentation. This monumental work is ideal for teaching how history and policy intersect.”—David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“For educators, this book is fundamentally useful. . . . Most helpful for the classroom, though, is the final section of primary sources. These include federal acts and resolutions, state legislation, municipal resolutions, seminal documents from activist organizations, case studies of redress, and opinions from key lawsuits. I doubt there is another work that houses these reparations-specific documents with this level of precision. Nor is there one volume with as much intellectual depth and breadth on this crucial topic.” -- Robert Samuel Smith * Journal of Southern History *
Table of ContentsPreface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
On Redress for Racial Injustice / Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto 1
Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege
Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy / David Lyons 33
Race Preferences and Race Privileges / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman 55
A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro 91
Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State
The Case for Reparations / Robert Fullinwider 121
Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations / James Bolner 134
The Constitutionality of Black Reparations / Boris L. Bittker and Roy L. Brooks 143
The Theory of Restitution: The African American Case / Richard America 160
Reparations to African Americans? / J. Angelo Corlett 170
Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress
"A Day of Reckoning": Dreams of Reparations / Robin D. G. Kelley 203
Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie 222
The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America / Robert S. Browne 238
The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism: The Economics of Reparations / William Darity Jr. and Dania Frank 249
The Rise of the Reparations Movement / Martha Biondi 255
Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention
Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery: Documenting the Case for Reparations / Alan Singer 275
Railroads, Race, and Reparations / Theodore Kornweibel Jr. 294
Reparations: A Viable Strategy to Address the Enigma of African American Health / David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins 305
Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty / Douglas S. Massey 331
Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies
The Politics of Racial Reparations / Charles P. Henry 353
The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans / Adrienne D. Davis 371
The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations / Yusuf Nuruddin 379
Reparation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow / Robert Johnson Jr. 402
What's Next? Japanese American Redress and African American Reparations / Eric K. Yamamoto 411
The Reparations Movement: An Assessment of Recent and Current Activism / Sam Anderson, Muntu Matsimela, and Yusuf Nuruddin 427
Reparations: Strategic Considerations for Black Americans / C. J. Munford 447
Tulsa Reparations: The Survivors' Story / Charles J. Ogletree Jr. 452
Race for Power: The Global Balance of Power and Reparations / Gerald Horne 469
Documents
Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions 485
Section 2. State Legislation 518
Section 3. Municipal Resolutions 536
Section 4. Advocacy and Activism 559
Section 5. Case Studies of Redress 637
Section 6. Lawsuits 660
Selected Bibliography 673
Contributors 683
Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687
Index 691
