Martin / Yaquinto Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States

On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8981-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 724 Seiten

A collection of seminal essays that examines the arguments in favor of the redress movement in the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Michael T.

Yaquinto, Marilyn

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lyons, David

Brown, Michael K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xix

On Redress for Racial Injustice / Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto 1

Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege

Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy / David Lyons 33

Race Preferences and Race Privileges / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman 55

A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro 91

Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State

The Case for Reparations / Robert Fullinwider 121

Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations / James Bolner 134

The Constitutionality of Black Reparations / Boris L. Bittker and Roy L. Brooks 143

The Theory of Restitution: The African American Case / Richard America 160

Reparations to African Americans? / J. Angelo Corlett 170

Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress

"A Day of Reckoning": Dreams of Reparations / Robin D. G. Kelley 203

Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie 222

The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America / Robert S. Browne 238

The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism: The Economics of Reparations / William Darity Jr. and Dania Frank 249

The Rise of the Reparations Movement / Martha Biondi 255

Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention

Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery: Documenting the Case for Reparations / Alan Singer 275

Railroads, Race, and Reparations / Theodore Kornweibel Jr. 294

Reparations: A Viable Strategy to Address the Enigma of African American Health / David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins 305

Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty / Douglas S. Massey 331

Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies

The Politics of Racial Reparations / Charles P. Henry 353

The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans / Adrienne D. Davis 371

The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations / Yusuf Nuruddin 379

Reparation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow / Robert Johnson Jr. 402

What's Next? Japanese American Redress and African American Reparations / Eric K. Yamamoto 411

The Reparations Movement: An Assessment of Recent and Current Activism / Sam Anderson, Muntu Matsimela, and Yusuf Nuruddin 427

Reparations: Strategic Considerations for Black Americans / C. J. Munford 447

Tulsa Reparations: The Survivors' Story / Charles J. Ogletree Jr. 452

Race for Power: The Global Balance of Power and Reparations / Gerald Horne 469

Documents

Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions 485

Section 2. State Legislation 518

Section 3. Municipal Resolutions 536

Section 4. Advocacy and Activism 559

Section 5. Case Studies of Redress 637

Section 6. Lawsuits 660

Selected Bibliography 673

Contributors 683

Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687

Index 691

Über Autor(innen)

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.