Should America pay? : slavery and the raging debate over reparations / [edited by] Raymond A. Winbush.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Amistad, c2003.Description: xix, 396 p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 60083107
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 185.89.R45 .Sh82 2003
Contents:
The African American warrant for reparations: the crime of European enslavement of Africans and its consequences / Molefi Kete Asante -- Reparations: an idea whose time has come / John Conyers Jr. with Jo Ann Nichols Watson -- Excerpt from Black exodus: the ex-slave pension movement reader / Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann -- Restitution as a precondition of reconciliation: native Hawaiians and indigenous human rights / Haunani-Kay Trask -- And the earth moved: stealing black land in the United States / Raymond A. Winbush -- Reparations for the descendents of American slaves under international law / Jon M. Van Dyke -- Does America owe a debt to the descendents of its slaves? / Harper's Magazine, November 2000 -- Many billions gone: is it time to reconsider the case for black reparations / Robert Westley -- Slave taxes / Kevin Outterson -- Reflections on Homer Plessy and reparations / Omari L. Winbush -- Presumed victims / Armstrong Williams -- Debt of honor / Christopher Hitchens -- Against reparations / John McWhorter -- Or a childish illusion of justice?: Reparations enshrine victimhood, dishonoring our ancestors / Shelby Steele -- The national black united front and the reparations movement / Conrad W. Worrill -- The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA): its creation and contribution to the reparations movement / Adjoa A. Aiyetoro -- The popularization of the international demand for reparations for African people / Roger Wareham -- Debtor's prison: facing history and its consequences / Tim Wise -- Reparations and health care for African Americans: repairing the damage from the legacy of slavery / Jewel Crawford, Wade W. Nobles, and Joy DeGruy Leary -- The United States debt owed to black people / Haki R. Madhubuti -- Riding the reparations bandwagon / Molly Secours -- Reparations + education = the pass to freedom / Yaa Asantewa Nzingha -- Interview with Chester and Timothy Hurdle, Barbara Ratliffe, and Ina Hurdle-McGee, October 29, 2002 / Raymond A. Winbush -- Thirteenth, fourtee
Summary: This comprehensive collection presents powerful, cogent material on all aspects of the reparations issue, with essays by Congressman John Conyers, Christopher Hitchens and Molefi Asante and important documents such as the First Congressional Reparations Bill of 1867. www.alibris.com
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-382) and index.

The African American warrant for reparations: the crime of European enslavement of Africans and its consequences / Molefi Kete Asante -- Reparations: an idea whose time has come / John Conyers Jr. with Jo Ann Nichols Watson -- Excerpt from Black exodus: the ex-slave pension movement reader / Deadria C. Farmer-Paellmann -- Restitution as a precondition of reconciliation: native Hawaiians and indigenous human rights / Haunani-Kay Trask -- And the earth moved: stealing black land in the United States / Raymond A. Winbush -- Reparations for the descendents of American slaves under international law / Jon M. Van Dyke -- Does America owe a debt to the descendents of its slaves? / Harper's Magazine, November 2000 -- Many billions gone: is it time to reconsider the case for black reparations / Robert Westley -- Slave taxes / Kevin Outterson -- Reflections on Homer Plessy and reparations / Omari L. Winbush -- Presumed victims / Armstrong Williams -- Debt of honor / Christopher Hitchens -- Against reparations / John McWhorter -- Or a childish illusion of justice?: Reparations enshrine victimhood, dishonoring our ancestors / Shelby Steele -- The national black united front and the reparations movement / Conrad W. Worrill -- The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA): its creation and contribution to the reparations movement / Adjoa A. Aiyetoro -- The popularization of the international demand for reparations for African people / Roger Wareham -- Debtor's prison: facing history and its consequences / Tim Wise -- Reparations and health care for African Americans: repairing the damage from the legacy of slavery / Jewel Crawford, Wade W. Nobles, and Joy DeGruy Leary -- The United States debt owed to black people / Haki R. Madhubuti -- Riding the reparations bandwagon / Molly Secours -- Reparations + education = the pass to freedom / Yaa Asantewa Nzingha -- Interview with Chester and Timothy Hurdle, Barbara Ratliffe, and Ina Hurdle-McGee, October 29, 2002 / Raymond A. Winbush -- Thirteenth, fourtee

This comprehensive collection presents powerful, cogent material on all aspects of the reparations issue, with essays by Congressman John Conyers, Christopher Hitchens and Molefi Asante and important documents such as the First Congressional Reparations Bill of 1867. www.alibris.com

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