Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. On Redress for Racial Injustice 1
6. Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege
7. Introduction 31
8. Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy 33
9. Race Preferences and Race Privileges 55
10. A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality 91
11. Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State
12. Introduction 119
13. The Case for Reparations 121
14. Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations 134
15. The Constitutionality of Black Reparations 143
16. The Theory of Restitution 160
17. Reparations to African Americans? 170
18. Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress
19. Introduction 201
20. ‘‘A Day of Reckoning’’ 203
21. Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith 222
22. The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America 238
23. The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism 249
24. The Rise of the Reparations Movement 255
25. Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention
26. Introduction 273
27. Nineteenth-Century New York City’s Complicity with Slavery 275
28. Railroads, Race, and Reparations 294
29. Reparations 305
30. Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty 331
31. Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies
32. Introduction 351
33. The Politics of Racial Reparations 353
34. The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans 371
35. The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations 379
36. Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow 402
37. What’s Next? 411
38. The Reparations Movement 427
39. Reparations 447
40. Tulsa Reparations 452
41. Race for Power 469
42. Documents
43. Introduction 483
44. Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions 485
45. Section 2. State Legislation 518
46. Section 3. Municipal Resolutions 536
47. Section 4. Advocacy and Activism 559
48. Section 5. Case Studies of Redress 637
49. Section 6. Lawsuits 660
50. Selected Bibliography 673
51. Contributors 683
52. Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687
53. Index 691