Preface 1. The Purpose and History of the Black Redress Movement 2. Harms to Slaves and Free Blacks 3. Harms to Descendants 4. The Tort Model 5. The Atonement Model 6. Opposing Arguments Epilogue Appendix 1: Selected List of Other Human Injustices Appendix 2: Summary of the Negotiations That Led to Germany's Foundation Law Notes Select Bibliography Table of Cases Table of Statutes Index
Roy L. Brooks is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. He is the author of over a dozen books, including Structures of Judicial Decision Making from Legal Formalism to Critical Theory (2002), When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (1999), Integration or Separation? A Strategy for Racial Equality (1996), and Rethinking the American Race Problem (California, 1990).
"An enormously important issue. Brooks... opens up the debate in a significant and constructive way.... [The book] is a significant addition to the dialogue and he [Brooks] should be congratulated for that; but more than that he should be engaged." - Mark Welch, Metapsychology Online Review "Roy Brooks' atonement model makes a singularly important contribution to the reparations debate. He argues that racial reconciliation in the United States can be achieved through reparations for American slavery and Jim Crow segregation, if such reparations are conceptualized in terms of atonement." - Melissa Nobles, MIT, author of Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics "In my Case for Black Reparations, published in 1973, I called for a national debate on this painful subject. Professor Brooks has responded magnificently to this appeal, with a comprehensive and painstakingly thoughtful analysis of all aspects of this area. His book, in my opinion, will certainly become the standard examination of the issue. I recommend it with unqualified enthusiasm." - Boris I. Bittker, Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale University"
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