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From here to equality : reparations for Black Americans in the twenty-first century /
Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the U.S. gove...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the Second edition
- Introduction: Standing at the crossroads
- A political history of America's Black reparations movement
- Myths of racial equality
- Who reaped the fruits of slavery?
- Roads not taken in the early years of the republic
- Alternatives to war and slavery
- Race and racism during the Civil War Rehearsals for freedom
- Radicals and rebels
- Seven mystic years (1866-1873)
- Sins of the sons and daughters
- Beyond Jim Crow
- Criticisms and responses
- A program of Black reparations
- Appendix 1: Reparations Coordinating Committee
- Appendix 2: Horrors of slavery
- Appendix 3: Narratives of emancipation
- Appendix 4: Memories of the [Massachusetts] Fifty-Fourth
- Appendix 5: More rehearsals for freedom
- Appendix 6: Jefferson Davis and the Haitian Revolution
- Appendix 7: The death of Freedman's Bank.