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1 online resource (xviii, 287 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-280) and index. |
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Reparations definitions -- Black (and other) reparations in history -- The modern Black reparations movement: Why now, why, and what? -- Against reparations -- Evaluating reparations lawsuits -- Legislative reparations -- Reparations future, realistic reparations, and models of reparations. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Summary |
Today, the debate over reparations--whether African-Americans should be compensated for decades of racial subjugation--stands as the most racially divisive issue in American politics. In this short, definitive work, Alfred L. Brophy, an expert on racial violence, regards the debate overreparations from the 1700s to the present, examining the arguments on both sides of the current debate. Taking us inside litigation and legislatures past and present, examining failed and successful lawsuits, and reparations actions by legislatures, newspapers, schools, and businesses, includingapologies and tru. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
African Americans -- Reparations.
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African Americans -- Reparations. |
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Compensation (Law) -- United States.
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Compensation (Law) |
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United States. |
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Reparations for historical injustices.
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Reparations for historical injustices. |
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Restorative justice.
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Restorative justice. |
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Brophy, Alfred L. Reparations. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 019530408X 9780195304084 (DLC) 2005037620 (OCoLC)62755581 |
ISBN |
9780198041344 (electronic book) |
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0198041349 (electronic book) |
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9780195304084 (cloth) |
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019530408X (cloth) |
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0195304071 (paperback) |
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9780195304077 (paperback) |
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