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Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States

On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2007

About this book

A collection of seminal essays that examines the arguments in favor of the redress movement in the United States.

Author / Editor information

Michael T. Martin is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University. He is the editor of New Latin American Cinema and Cinemas of the Black Diaspora and a coeditor of Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World.

Marilyn Yaquinto is Assistant Professor of Communication at Truman State University. She is the author of Pump ‘Em Full of Lead: A Look at Gangsters on Film and a former journalist with the Los Angeles Times.

Reviews

“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

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

    xiii
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    Acknowledgments

    xix
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    On Redress for Racial Injustice

    1
    Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto
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  • Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege
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    Introduction

    31
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    Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy

    33
    David Lyons
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    Race Preferences and Race Privileges

    55
    Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz and David Wellman
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    A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality

    91
    Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro
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  • Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State
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    Introduction

    119
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    The Case for Reparations

    121
    Robert Fullinwider
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    Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations

    134
    James Bolner
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    The Constitutionality of Black Reparations

    143
    Boris L. Bittker and Roy L. Brooks
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    The Theory of Restitution

    160
    Richard America
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    Reparations to African Americans?

    170
    J. Angelo Corlett
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  • Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress
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    Introduction

    201
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    ‘‘A Day of Reckoning’’

    203
    Robin D. G. Kelley
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    Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith

    222
    Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
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    The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America

    238
    Robert S. Browne
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    The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism

    249
    William Darity and Dania Frank
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    The Rise of the Reparations Movement

    255
    Martha Biondi
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  • Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention
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    Introduction

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    Nineteenth-Century New York City’s Complicity with Slavery

    275
    Alan Singer
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    Railroads, Race, and Reparations

    294
    Theodore Kornweibel
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    Reparations

    305
    David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins
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    Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty

    331
    Douglas S. Massey
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  • Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies
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    Introduction

    351
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    The Politics of Racial Reparations

    353
    Charles P. Henry
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    The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans

    371
    Adrienne D. Davis
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    The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations

    379
    Yusuf Nuruddin
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    Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow

    402
    Robert Johnson
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    What’s Next?

    411
    Eric K. Yamamoto
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    The Reparations Movement

    427
    Sam Anderson, Muntu Matsimela and Yusuf Nuruddin
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    Reparations

    447
    C. J. Munford
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    Tulsa Reparations

    452
    Charles J. Ogletree
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    Race for Power

    469
    Gerald Horne
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  • Documents
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    Introduction

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    Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions

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    Section 2. State Legislation

    518
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    Section 3. Municipal Resolutions

    536
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    Section 4. Advocacy and Activism

    559
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    Section 5. Case Studies of Redress

    637
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    Section 6. Lawsuits

    660
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    Selected Bibliography

    673
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    Contributors

    683
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    Acknowledgment of Copyrights

    687
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    Index

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