Heirs of oppression / J. Angelo Corlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corlett, J. Angelo, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Reparations.

African Americans.

Indians of North America--Reparations.

Indians of North America.

Reparations for historical injustices--United States.

Reparations for historical injustices.

Race discrimination--United States--History.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Packing his case with moral argument and relevant facts, Angelo Corlett offers the most comprehensive defense to date in favor of reparations for African Americans and American Indians. As Corlett see it, the heirs of oppression are both the descendants of the oppressors and the descendants of their victims. Corlett delves deeply into the philosophically related issues of collective responsibility, forgiveness and apology, and reparations as a human right in ways that no other book or article to date has done.

Contents:

1. Reparations

2. Cosmopolitanism and compensatory justice

3. Utilitarianism and historical injustice

4. Reparations as a human right

5. Collective responsibility and reparations

6. Reparations to American Indians

7. Reparations to Blacks

8. Reparations and reconciliation

9. Possible reparations policies

10. Objections to reparations, and replies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-364) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-96694-4

9786612966941

1-4422-0816-3

OCLC:

699488899