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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- On Redress for Racial Injustice -- Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege -- Introduction -- Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy -- Race Preferences and Race Privileges -- A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality -- Pa...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- On Redress for Racial Injustice -- Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege -- Introduction -- Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy -- Race Preferences and Race Privileges -- A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality -- Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State -- Introduction -- The Case for Reparations -- Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations -- The Constitutionality of Black Reparations -- The Theory of Restitution -- Reparations to African Americans? -- Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress -- Introduction -- ''A Day of Reckoning'' -- Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith -- The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America -- The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism -- The Rise of the Reparations Movement -- Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention -- Introduction -- Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery -- Railroads, Race, and Reparations -- Reparations -- Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty -- Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies -- Introduction -- The Politics of Racial Reparations -- The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans -- The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations -- Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow -- What's Next? -- The Reparations Movement -- Reparations -- Tulsa Reparations -- Race for Power -- Documents -- Introduction -- Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions -- Section 2. State Legislation -- Section 3. Municipal Resolutions -- Section 4. Advocacy and Activism -- Section 5. Case Studies of Redress -- Section 6. Lawsuits -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung