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From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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Overview
In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. After opening the book with a stark assessment of the intergenerational effects of white supremacy on black economic well-being, Darity and Mullen look to both the past and the present to measure the inequalities borne of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs, they next assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War. Finally, Darity and Mullen offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery. Taken individually, any one of the three eras of injustice outlined by Darity and Mullen--slavery, Jim Crow, and modern-day discrimination--makes a powerful case for black reparations. Taken collectively, they are impossible to ignore.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781469654980 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 03/03/2020 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 424 |
Sales rank: | 199,926 |
File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
A. Kirsten Mullen is a writer, folklorist, museum consultant, and lecturer whose work focuses on race, art, history, and politics.
What People are Saying About This
Argued powerfully with quiet passion, this compelling case for reparations rests on a deep historical account of missed chances to remedy slavery, Jim Crow, and deep discrimination, and thus [to] overcome profound barriers to economic equality. Focusing on the immense racial wealth gap, the book's detailed program demands attention and adjudication.Ira Katznelson, author of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in America
An extraordinary accomplishment and a brilliant and provocative contribution to the current debate on reparations. From Here to Equality provides a genuinely novel and thoughtful solution that will propel this evolving, international political movement.Craig Steven Wilder, author of Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
Darity and Mullen presentwith brilliant eruditionevidence that will catalyze the coming transformation of American moral values.Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD, chair of the Lancet Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice