Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States by Michael T Martin
Brings together primary and secondary documents related to the reparations movement in the United States. While the movement is united in its goal of repairing the injustices to African Americans that have followed from the long history of slavery and Jim Crow, this title reveals the range of opinions as to the form that repair might take.
“A truly impressive achievement in its range of approaches, depth of analysis, and variety of sources, this book should immediately become the definitive text on the subject of reparations for black Americans”- Charles W. Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University “It will be far harder to dismiss the deeply resonant and persistent demand for reparations in the wake of this remarkable collection of interdisciplinary research and historical documentation. This monumental work is ideal for teaching how history and policy intersect.”-David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “For educators, this book is fundamentally useful. . . . Most helpful for the classroom, though, is the final section of primary sources. These include federal acts and resolutions, state legislation, municipal resolutions, seminal documents from activist organizations, case studies of redress, and opinions from key lawsuits. I doubt there is another work that houses these reparations-specific documents with this level of precision. Nor is there one volume with as much intellectual depth and breadth on this crucial topic.” - Robert Samuel Smith (Journal of Southern History)
Michael T. Martin is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University. He is the editor of New Latin American Cinema and Cinemas of the Black Diaspora and a coeditor of Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World.
Marilyn Yaquinto is Assistant Professor of Communication at Truman State University. She is the author of Pump ‘Em Full of Lead: A Look at Gangsters on Film and a former journalist with the Los Angeles Times.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822340249 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822340240 |
| Title | Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States |
| Author | Michael T Martin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2007-07-16 |
| Number of pages | 728 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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