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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon), 1950- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©1999.
Colección:Critical America.
Temas:
Social justice.
Claims.
Social Justice
Justice sociale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
LAW > Civil Rights.
Verontschuldiging.
Schadevergoeding.
Oorlogsmisdaden.
Onrechtvaardigheid.
Casestudies (vorm)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • When Sorry Isn't Enough
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • PART 1. Introduction
  • 1 The Age of Apology
  • Suggested Readings
  • PART 2. Nazi Persecution
  • Introduction
  • 2 A Reparations Success Story?
  • The Scope of Persecution
  • 3 The German Third Reich and Its Victims: Nazi Ideology
  • Holocaust Narratives
  • 4 Memories of My Childhood in the Holocaust
  • 5 The Human "Guinea Pigs" of Ravensbr|ck
  • 6 Stranger in Exile
  • The National Security Defense
  • 7 Putative National Security Defense: Extracts from the Testimony of Nazi SS Group Leader Otto Ohlendorf
  • German Reparations
  • 8 German Compensation for National Socialist Crimes: United States Department of Justice Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
  • 9 Romani Victims of the Holocaust and Swiss Complicity
  • 10 German Reparations: Institutionalized Insufficiency
  • Suggested Readings
  • PART 3. Comfort Women
  • Introduction
  • 11 What Form Redress?
  • The Comfort Women System
  • 12 The Jugun Ianfu System
  • 13 Comfort Women Narratives: Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women
  • 14 The Nanking Massacre
  • 15 Japan's Official Responses to Nanking
  • The Redress Movement
  • 16 The Comfort Women Redress Movement
  • 17 Japan's Official Responses to Reparations
  • A Legal Analysis of Reparations
  • 18 Japan's Settlement of the Post-World War II Reparations and Claims
  • 19 Reparations: A Legal Analysis
  • An American Response
  • 20 Lipinski Resolution
  • Suggested Readings
  • PART 4. Japanese Americans
  • Introduction
  • 21 Japanese American Redress and the American Political Process: A Unique Achievement?
  • The Internment Experience
  • 22 The Internment of Americans of Japanese Ancestry
  • 23 Executive Order 9066: Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas
  • 24 Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
  • 25 Japanese American Narratives
  • The Redress Movement
  • 26 Relocation, Redress, and the Report: A Historical Appraisal
  • Forms of Redress
  • 27 Redress Achieved, 1983-1990
  • 28 Institutions and Interest Groups: Understanding the Passage of the Japanese American Redress Bill
  • 29 Proclamation 4417: Confirming the Termination of the Executive Order Authorizing Japanese-American Internment
  • 30 Response to Criticisms of Monetary Redress
  • 31 Testimony of Representative Norman Y. Mineta
  • 32 German Americans, Italian Americans, and the Constitutionality of Reparations: Jacobs v. Barr
  • 33 The Case of the Japanese Peruvians
  • 34 Letters from John J. McCloy and Karl R. Bendetsen
  • Suggested Readings
  • PART 5. Native Americans
  • Introduction
  • 35 Wild Redress?
  • The Native American Experience
  • 36 Native American Reparations: Five Hundred Years and Counting
  • Native American Narratives
  • 37 The Killing of Big Snake, a Ponca Chief, October 31, 1879
  • 38 The Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, December 29, 1890
  • 39 How the Indians Are Victimized by Government Agents and Soldiers
  • 40 Forced Removal of the Winnebago Indians, Nebraska, October 3, 1865
  • The Redress Movement: Land Claim Litigation
  • 41 Indian Claims for Reparations, Compensation, and Restitution in the United States Legal System
  • The Redress Movement: Land Claim Legislation
  • 42 The True Nature of Congress's Power over Indian Claims: An Essay on Venetie and the Uses of Silence in Federal Indian Law
  • Repatriation of Religious and Cultural Artifacts
  • 43 Repatriation Must Heal Old Wounds
  • Wealth, Redistribution, and Sovereignty
  • 44 Office of the Governor, Pete Wilson, State of California, Press Release
  • 45 Statement of the Honorable Anthony R. Pico, Chairman, Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Press Conference
  • 46 The Distribution of Wealth, Sovereignty, and Culture through Indian Gaming
  • Suggested Readings
  • PART 6. Slavery
  • Introduction
  • 47 Not Even an Apology?
  • The Slave and the Free Black Experience
  • 48 The Legal Status of African Americans during the Colonial Period
  • 49 African Americans under the Antebellum Constitution: Supreme Court of the United States
  • 50 Slave Narratives
  • 51 Remembering Slavery
  • 52 Life as a Free Black
  • The Redress Movement
  • 53 The Growing Movement for Reparations
  • Forms of Redress: Apology
  • 54 Why the North and South Should Have Apologized
  • 55 Defense of Congressional Resolution Apologizing for Slavery
  • 56 Clinton Opposes Slavery Apology
  • 57 Ask Camille: Camille Paglia's Online Advice for the Culturally Disgruntled
  • 58 The Atlantic Slave Trade: On Both Sides, Reason for Remorse
  • 59 They Didn't March to Free the Slaves
  • 60 Lincoln Apologizes
  • Forms of Redress: Reparations
  • 61 Special Field Order No. 15: "Forty Acres and a Mule"
  • 62 The Commission to Study Reparations Proposals
  • 63 Clinton and Conservatives Oppose Slavery Reparations
  • 64 Collective Rehabilitation
  • 65 The Constitutionality of Black Reparations
  • Suggested Readings
  • PART 7. Jim Crow
  • Introduction
  • 66 Redress for Racism?
  • The Jim Crow Experience
  • 67 The Triumph of White Supremacy
  • Jim Crow Narratives
  • 68 Jim Crow Narratives
  • Forms of Redress
  • 69 The United States Has Already Apologized for Racial Discrimination
  • 70 The Long-Overdue Reparations for African Americans: Necessary for Societal Survival?
  • 71 Reparations: Strategic Considerations for Black Americans
  • 72 Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim-Crowism
  • 73 Rosewood
  • Suggested Readings
  • PART 8. South Africa
  • Introduction
  • 74 What Price Reconciliation?
  • The Apartheid Experience
  • 75 African National Congress Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • Apartheid Narratives
  • 76 Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Amnesty Hearing: Testimony of Jeffrey T. Benzien
  • 77 Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Amnesty Hearing: Affidavit and Testimony of Bassie Mkhumbuzi
  • The Redress Movement
  • 78 Alternatives and Adjuncts to Criminal Prosecutions
  • Forms of Redress
  • 79 Summary of Anti-Amnesty Case: Azanian Peoples Organization (AZAPO) and Others v. The President of the Republic of South Africa
  • 80 Justice after Apartheid? Reflections on the South African TRC
  • 81 Will the Amnesty Process Foster Reconciliation among South Africans?
  • 82 Healing Racial Wounds? The Final Report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  • 83 Introductory Notes to the Presentation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Proposed Reparation and Rehabilitation Policies
  • 84 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearing, Testimony of Former President F.W. de Klerk
  • 85 Affirmative Action as Reparation for Past Employment Discrimination in South Africa: Imperfect and Complex
  • Suggested Readings
  • Appendix: Selected List of Other Human Injustices
  • Contributors
  • Permissions
  • Index
  • About the Editor

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