Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies

Published by Duke University Press 2007

Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States

On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies

Edited by: Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto
With contributions by: David Lyons and Michael K. Brown

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389811

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
On Redress for Racial Injustice Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy David Lyons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Race Preferences and Race Privileges Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz and David Wellman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
The Case for Reparations Robert Fullinwider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations James Bolner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
The Constitutionality of Black Reparations Boris L. Bittker and Roy L. Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
The Theory of Restitution The African American Case Richard America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Reparations to African Americans? J. Angelo Corlett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
‘‘A Day of Reckoning’’ Dreams of Reparations Robin D. G. Kelley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America Robert S. Browne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism The Economics of Reparations William Darity and Dania Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
The Rise of the Reparations Movement Martha Biondi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Nineteenth-Century New York City’s Complicity with Slavery Documenting the Case for Reparations Alan Singer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Railroads, Race, and Reparations Theodore Kornweibel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
Reparations A Viable Strategy to Address the Enigma of African American Health David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty Douglas S. Massey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
The Politics of Racial Reparations Charles P. Henry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans Adrienne D. Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations Yusuf Nuruddin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow Robert Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	402
What’s Next? Japanese American Redress and African American Reparations Eric K. Yamamoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
The Reparations Movement An Assessment of Recent and Current Activism Sam Anderson, Muntu Matsimela and Yusuf Nuruddin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Reparations Strategic Considerations for Black Americans C. J. Munford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
Tulsa Reparations The Survivors’ Story Charles J. Ogletree Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	452
Race for Power The Global Balance of Power and Reparations Gerald Horne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Documents
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
Section 2. State Legislation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	518
Section 3. Municipal Resolutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	536
Section 4. Advocacy and Activism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
Section 5. Case Studies of Redress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	637
Section 6. Lawsuits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	660
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	673
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	683
Acknowledgment of Copyrights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	687
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	691

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 724
Illustrations
- Other: 6 tables, 1 figure

eBook

Published: July 16, 2007
ISBN: 9780822389811