Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies Book

Preface     xiii
Acknowledgments     xix
On Redress for Racial Injustice   Michael T. Martin   Marilyn Yaquinto     1
Racial Inequality and White Privilege
Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy   David Lyons     33
Race Preferences and Race Privileges   Michael K. Brown   Martin Carnoy   Elliott Currie   Troy Duster   David B. Oppenheimer   Marjorie M. Shultz   David Wellman     55
A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality   Melvin L. Oliver   Thomas M. Shapiro     91
Law, Citizenship, and the State
The Case for Reparations   Robert Fullinwider     121
Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations   James Bolner     134
The Constitutionality of Black Reparations   Boris L. Bittker   Roy L. Brooks     143
The Theory of Restitution: The African American Case   Richard America     160
Reparations to African Americana?   J. Angelo Corlett     170
Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress
"A Day of Reckoning": Dreams of Reparations   Robin D. G. Kelley     203
Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith   Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie     222
The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America   Robert S. Browne     238
The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism: The Economics of Reparations   William Darity Jr.   Dania Frank     249
The Rise of the Reparations Movement   Martha Biondi     255
Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention
Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery: Documenting the Case for Reparations   Alan Singer     275
Railroads, Race, and Reparations   Theodore Kornweibel Jr.     294
Reparations: A Viable Strategy to Address the Enigma of African American Health   David R. Williams   Chiquita Collins     305
Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty   Douglas S. Massey     331
Mobilizing Strategies
The Politics of Racial Reparations   Charles P. Henry     353
The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans   Adrienne D. Davis     371
The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations   Yusuf Nuruddin     379
Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow   Robert Johnson Jr.     402
What's Next? Japanese American Redress and African American Reparations   Eric K. Yamamoto     411
The Reparations Movement: An Assessment of Recent and Current Activism   Sam Anderson   Muntu Matsimela   Yusuf Nuruddin     427
Reparations: Strategic Considerations for Black Americans   C.J. Munford     447
Tulsa Reparations: The Survivors' Story   Charles J. Ogletree Jr.     452
Race for Power: The Global Balance of Power and Reparations   Gerald Horne     469
Documents
Federal Acts and Resolutions
The Second Confiscation Act (1862)     486
Special Field Orders, No. 15 (1865)     490
Freedmen's Bureau Act (1865)     493
Southern Homestead Act (1866)     495
House Resolution 29 (1867)     498
Civil Liberties Act (1988)     501
House Resolution 356 (2000)     503
House Resolution 40 (2005)     506
Senate Resolution 39 (2005)     513
Senate Resolution 44 (2005)     515
State Legislation
Michigan House Bill No. 5562 (2000)     519
California Senate Bill No. 2199 (2000)     520
California Senate Joint Resolution No. 1 (2001)     522
New Jersey African-American Reconciliation Study Commission Act (2003)     524
Texas House Joint Resolution 25 (2003)     530
Maryland House Joint Resolution 4 (2004)      533
Municipal Resolutions
City of Detroit (1989)     537
City of Chicago (2000)     539
City of San Francisco (2001)     542
City of New York Resolution 41 (2002)     544
City of New York Resolution 219 (2002)     547
District of Columbia (2003)     549
City of New York Resolution 57 (2004)     552
City of New York Resolution 195 (2004)     554
City of Philadelphia (2004)     556
Advocacy and Activism
United Negro Improvement Association (1920): "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World"     560
Civil Rights Congress (1951): "We Charge Genocide"     567
Malcolm X (1964): Appeal to African Heads of State     580
Black Panther Party for Self Defense (1967): What We Want; What We Believe     585
Republic of New Africa (1968): Declaration of Independence     588
Black Panther Party (1969): Reparations for Vietnam     592
National Black Economic Development Conference (1969): The Black Manifesto     593
National Black Political Agenda (1972): The Gary Declaration     600
Black Panther Party (1973): Petition to the United Nations     606
Nation of Islam (1990): A Case for Reparations     608
Black Radical Congress (1999): The Freedom Agenda     612
Reparations Support Committee (1999/2000): "To the President of the United States of America"     620
Randall Robinson, TransAfrica Forum (2000): Restatement of the Black Manifesto     621
National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (2000): The Reparations Campaign     625
The NDABA Movement (2004): National Reparations Petition     629
NAACP (2005): NAACP Supports Reintroduction of Reparations Study Legislation     631
American Bar Association Recommendation (2006)     634
Episcopal Church (2006): Call for the Episcopal Church to Study Responsibility for Reparations     635
Case Studies of Redress
The White House (1997): Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee     638
Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (2000)     642
Mandate for the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004)     645
Rosewood Victims v. State of Florida (2004): Special Master's Final Report     649
Florida Statute 1004.60 (2004)     657
Florida Statute 1009.55 (2004)     658
Lawsuits
Timothy Pigford, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Dan Glickman, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, Defendant (1998): Opinion     661
Civil Actions Nos. 97-1978, 98-1693 (1999): Opinion     665
In re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation (2004): Opinion     668
Selected Bibliography     673
Contributors     683
Acknowledgment of Copyrights     687
Index     691