Should America Pay?电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Foreword Nontombi Tutu

Introduction Raymond A. Winbush

Part I - History and Reparations

Chapter 1 - The African American Warrant for Reparations: The Crime of European Enslavement of Africans and Its Consequences

Chapter 2 - Reparations: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Chapter 3 - Excerpt from Black Exodus: The Ex-Slave Pension Movement Reader

Chapter 4 - Restitution as a Precondition of Reconciliation: Native Hawaiians and Indigenous Human Rights

Chapter 5 - And the Earth Moved: Stealing Black Land in the United States

Part II - Reparations and the Law

Chapter 6 - Reparations for the Descendants of American Slaves Under International Law

Chapter 8 - Many Billions Gone: Is it Time to Reconsider the Case for Black Reparations?

Chapter 9 - Slave Taxes

Chapter 10 - Reflections on Homer Plessy and Reparations

Part III - Voices for and against Reparations

Chapter 11 - Presumed Victims

Chapter 12 - Debt of Honor

Chapter 13 - Against Reparations

Chapter 14 - …Or a Childish Illusion of Justice?: Reparations Enshrine Victimhood, Dishonoring our Ancestors

Part IV - Reparations and Grassroots Organizing

Chapter 15 - The National Black United Front and the Reparations Movement

Chapter 16 - The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA): Its Creation and Contribution to the Reparations Movement

Chapter 17 - The Popularization of the International Demand for Reparations for African People

Part V - Reparations and Intervention

Chapter 18 - Debtor’s Prison: Facing History and its Consequences

Chapter 19 - Reparations and Health Care for African Americans: Repairing the Damage from the Legacy of Slavery

Chapter 20 - The United States’ Debt Owed to Black People

Chapter 21 - Riding the Reparations Bandwagon

Chapter 22 - Reparations + Education = The Pass to Freedom

Chapter 23 - Interview with Chester and Timothy Hurdle, Barbara Ratliff, and Ina Hurdle-McGee, October 29, 2002

Part VI - Historical Documents

Chapter 24 - Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution

Chapter 25 - In the Field: Savannah, Georgia, Special Field Orders, No. 15, January 16, 1865

Chapter 26 - A Bill Introduced by Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, H.R. 29, 40th Congress, 1st Session, March 11, 1867: A Plan for Confiscation

Chapter 27 - Congressman John Conyers’s (D-MI) Bill for a Study on the Impact of Slavery on African Americans HR40IH, 105th Congress, 1st Session, H.R. 40

Chapter 28 - The Dakar Declaration: African Regional Preparatory Conference for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Dakar, 22–24 January 2001

Chapter 29 - Farmer-Paellmann v. FleetBoston, Aetna Inc., CSX

Part VII - Current Status and Future Directions of the Reparations Movement

Chapter 30 - Current Legal Status of Reparations, Strategies of the National Black United Front, the Mississippi Model, What’s Next in the Reparations Movement

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise for Should America Pay?

Other Books by Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D.

Copyright

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