Long Overdue : the Politics of Racial Reparations.
Ever since the unfulfilled promise of "forty acres and a mule," America has consistently failed to confront the issue of racial injustice. Exploring why America has failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery, Long Overdue provides a history of the racial reparations mov...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction: Insufficient Funds; 1 A Political and Legal History of Reparations and Race Relations; 2 From Forty Acres to "We Must Have Our Money": Reparations from Antebellum to Civil Rights America; 3 A Winning Case: Comparing the Rosewood and Greenwood Reparations Claims; 4 The Contemporary Debate: The Legacy of Slavery and the Antireparations Movement; 5 Reparations Go Global: Pan Africanism and the World Conference against Racism; 6 A True Revolution of Values: Changing the Culture and Politics of Reparations.
- Epilogue: We Are American: The Aftermath of Hurricane KatrinaNotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.