Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/DAuJ120 Long Overdue The Politics of Racial Reparations By: Charles P. Henry Publisher: NYU Press Print ISBN: 9780814737415, 0814737412 eText ISBN: 9780814737248, 0814737242 Copyright year: 2007 Format: EPUB Available from $ 25.17 USD SKU 9780814737248 An investigation of America’s failure to atone for the wrongs of slavery Ever since the unfulfilled promise of “forty acres and a mule” after the Civil War, America has consistently failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery. Exploring why America has struggled to confront the issue of racial injustice, Long Overdue provides a history of the racial reparations movement and shows why it is more relevant now than ever. Through an examination of Americans’ unwillingness to address economic injustice, Charles P. Henry crafts a skillful moral, political, economic, and historical argument for African American reparations, focusing on successful political cases. In the wake of successes in South Africa and New Zealand, new models for reparations have found traction in a number of American cities and states, from Dallas to Baltimore and Virginia to California. By looking at other dispossessed groups—Native Americans, Holocaust survivors, and Japanese internment victims in the 1940s—Henry shows how some groups have won the fight for reparations, and explores new ways forward for Black Americans. From Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane Harvey, the events of the 21st century continue to show that the legacy of racial segregation and economic disadvantage is never far below the surface in America. As the issue of reparations is brought to the national stage by figures such as Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamala Harris, Long Overdue provides a must-read survey of the political and legislative efforts made toward reparations over the course of American history, and offers a new path toward establishing equality for all Black Americans. Additional ISBNs 9780814736920, 9780814737415, 0814736920, 0814737412, 9780814736920, 0814736920
