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Long overdue : the politics of racial reparations / Charles P. Henry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henry, Charles P., 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Reparations--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Reparations for historical injustices--United States.
- Reparations for historical injustices.
- Racism--Political aspects--United States.
- Racism.
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 movement and shows why it is an idea whose time has come. Martin Luther King, Jr., remarked in his "I Have a Dream" speech that America has given Black citizens a "bad check" marked "insufficient funds." Yet apart from a few Black nationalists, the call for reparations has been peripheral to Black policy demands
- Contents:
- Contents; 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814790809
- 0814790801
- 9780814737248
- 0814737242
- OCLC:
- 779828413
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