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Title:
Reparations
Author:
Cunningham, Anne C., editor.
ISBN:
9781534500259

9781534500310
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
200 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Should countries with legacies of civil rights injustices compensate the descendants of those they have violated?. Reparations have no rational basis in present-day U.S. society / Former colonialist powers owe assistance to their former colonies / Victimized states need compensation from those who have reaped the benefit / Immigrants deserve reparations and open borders / Indigenous reconciliation fosters healing / Does implementation of reparations achieve a satisfactory solution?. Reparations are excessively burdensome and counterproductive / Violent non-state entities should be forced to pay reparations to their victims / Apology-based reparations signal empathy not responsibility / Condolence payments are politically expedient but imperfect / Legal reparations insufficiently settle moral debts to neighboring countries / What form should reparations take?. Reparations would remedy white supremacy in America / Reparations are an insult to African Americans / We need more holistic understanding of reparations / A correspondence model of reparations does not fully redress historical injustice / Money won't compensate the theft of sacred land / Should later generations be blamed for injustices of the distant past?. Acknowledge the past to build a better future / Truth commissions force a reckoning with the past / Forgetting is not the same as forgiving / We did not commit the wrongs that haunt Native Americans today / We are all responsible for the past
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