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The price of racial reconciliation / Ronald W. Walters.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walters, Ronald W.
- Series:
- Politics of race and ethnicity
- The politics of race and ethnicity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Reconciliation.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Racism--South Africa.
- South Africa.
- Black people--Social conditions.
- Black people.
- Reparations for historical injustices.
- Reconciliation--Social aspects.
- African Americans--Reparations.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 249 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The Price of Racial Reconciliation presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for reparations in the United States.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A grand narrative of South African racial oppression
- The persistence of memory
- Truth, reconciliation, and reparations
- A grand narrative of black American oppression
- The grand narrative and the legacy of modern subordination
- Barriers to truth and reconciliation in America
- The reparations movement : a liberatory narrative
- The globalization of African reparations
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472115303
- 0472115308
- 9780472033805
- 9780472021703
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.135227
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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