Introduction
Part I. Understanding Reparations: Reparations Definitions, Goals,
History, and Theory
1: Reparations Definitions
2: Black (and Other) Reparations
Part II. Reparations Ascendant: The Recent Renascence of
Reparations Debate and Refined Reparations Theory
3: The Modern Black Reparations Movement: Why Now, Why, and
What?
4: Against Reparations
Part III. Implementing Reparations: Reparations Practice
5: Evaluating Reparations Lawsuits
6: Legislative Reparations
Part IV. Possibilities for the Future
7: Reparations Future, Realistic Reparations, and Models of
Reparations
Appendices and Documents Related to Reparations
Notes
For Further Reading
Index
Alfred L. Brophy is Reef C. Ivey II Professor of Law at the
University of North Carolina. He is the author of Reconstructing
the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and
Reconciliation and Book Reviews Editor of Law and History Review.
He contributed to the report to the Tulsa Race Riot Commission, a
body created by the Oklahoma Legislature to investigate the riot
and make recommendations for reparations. Brophy
has appeared on CNN's News Night with Aaron Brown, NBC Nightly
News, NPR's "Fresh Air," the "Tavis Smiley Show," and "Talk of the
Nation," and has been quoted in such newspapers as the Chicago
Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times,
and Washington Post.
"A comprehensive yet very accessible book on a controversial
topic...an outstanding source. Recommended."--CHOICE
"Amidst the often rancorous national debate over reparations for
slavery, Alfred Brophy's Reparations: Pro and Con stands out as a
work of rare balance and judiciousness. Rather than offering
another partisan polemic, Brophy takes seriously the arguments of
both advocates and opponents of reparations, illuminating the
complex historical, political, legal, and moral questions entailed
by any confrontation with historical injustice. Whatever your
politics, you will profit from reading this book."--James T.
Campbell, author of Middle Passages and Songs of Zion
"Professor Alfred Brophy has written a book about reparations and
its contentious qualities that is a must-read for all. While
reparations was a dormant subject in the twentieth century, Alfred
Brophy has raised it to an exalted status: if you want to know the
essence of the debate, this book is for you."-Charles K. Ogletree,
Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor, Harvard Law School, and Executive
Director of Harvard's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race
and
Justice
"In spite of our victory over master race theory in World War II,
in spite of Brown vs. Board of Education and the heartwrenching
victories of the civil rights struggle, Jim Crow lives on in fact
if not in law. Brophy's book operates in the realm of fact. How
would we act if repairing injustice were the true goal of our
hearts? What world would we make? Answering the questions posed in
this book is the way to peace, at last."--Mari Matsuda,
co-author,
with Charles Lawrence, of We Won't Go Back: Making the Case for
Affirmative Action and Professor, Georgetown University Law
Center
"A comprehensive yet very accessible book on a controversial
topic...an outstanding source. Recommended."--CHOICE
"Amidst the often rancorous national debate over reparations for
slavery, Alfred Brophy's Reparations: Pro and Con stands out as a
work of rare balance and judiciousness. Rather than offering
another partisan polemic, Brophy takes seriously the arguments of
both advocates and opponents of reparations, illuminating the
complex historical, political, legal, and moral questions entailed
by any confrontation with historical injustice. Whatever your
politics, you will profit from reading this book."--James T.
Campbell, author of Middle Passages and Songs of Zion
"Professor Alfred Brophy has written a book about reparations and
its contentious qualities that is a must-read for all. While
reparations was a dormant subject in the twentieth century, Alfred
Brophy has raised it to an exalted status: if you want to know the
essence of the debate, this book is for you."--Charles K. Ogletree,
Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor, Harvard Law School, and Executive
Director of Harvard's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race
and
Justice
"In spite of our victory over master race theory in World War II,
in spite of Brown vs. Board of Education and the heartwrenching
victories of the civil rights struggle, Jim Crow lives on in fact
if not in law. Brophy's book operates in the realm of fact. How
would we act if repairing injustice were the true goal of our
hearts? What world would we make? Answering the questions posed in
this book is the way to peace, at last."--Mari Matsuda,
co-author,
with Charles Lawrence, of We Won't Go Back: Making the Case for
Affirmative Action and Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
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