![]() The last two chapters are dedicated to the authors’ proposed next steps: Congressionally legislated reparations in the form of payments to Black Americans whose ancestors White Americans enslaved. government could have chosen to work toward equity for Black Americans it chose not to. ![]() slavery on the country’s economic development from its formation to the present, including the present-day racial wealth gap and illustrate how at every point the U.S. The first 11 chapters lay out the history of past calls for reparations for Black Americans analyze the widespread effect of U.S. This book’s power is in its pragmatic thoroughness. Kirsten Mullen lay out a path toward acknowledgment, redress, and closure of these wrongs: a detailed program of Black reparations. systems and White Americans perpetrate daily against Black Americans today? In this academic but crystal-clear text, William A. ![]() government atone for the sin of slavery, the failure of Reconstruction, the apartheid Jim Crow state, and the active discrimination and atrocities that U.S. “The failure to pay a debt in a timely fashion does not extinguish the obligation.” How can the U.S. ![]() ![]() The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. ![]()
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