“ Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations.” Phylon 29 (1968): 41-47.īoxill, Bernard. Bittker examines the development of laws designed to address group injustice and finds that they provide a model through which nation-wide reparations could be considered.īolner, James. This classic legal study argues that the history of slavery and segregation in the United States justifies claims for black reparations. Noting both the spiritual, physical, and social remnants of slavery in contemoprary Caribbean nations, Beckles presuasively argues for the contemporary necessity of reparations.īittker, Boris. In this book, Hilary Beckles argues that reparations are owed from Britain to present-day ancestors of slaves in Caribbean plantations. Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery and Native Genocide. In this collection of essays, Amiri Baraka ties the project of reparations to the wider struggle for civil rights and participation in American democracy.īeckles, Hilary. In this book, William Kweku Asare returns to the slave trade as the source of many of the problems facing Africa today and argues that without substancially reckoning with and seeking to redress this history those problems are likely to remain unaddressed.īaraka, Amiri. The essays take a variety of perspectives, but focus on proposals, justifications, and the possible effects of black reparations.Īsare, William Kweku. This collection of essays takes an economic approach to the issue of reparations by addressing the need to collectively redistribute wealth in response to the history of slavery, segregation, and racial discrimination in the United States. The Wealth of Races: The Present Value of Benefits from Past Injustices.
He then shows how this debt arose and suggests ways in which it could be repaid.Īmerica, Richard F. In this book, Richard America argues that White America owes a debt to Black America and attempts to calculate it economically. Paying the Social Debt: What White America Owes Black America. He then proceeds to take on reparations from the perspective of political economy, arguing that systemic racial inequality in capital and underdevelopment call for forms of economic reparations.Īmerica, Richard F.
In this article, Robert Allen begins by recounting the history of the struggle for black reparations in the United States. “ Past Due: The African American Quest for Reparations.” Black Scholar 28 (Summer 1998): 2-17.
These arguments emerge in a variety of disciplines–legal studies, economics, history, sociology, political theory, and philosophy–and are generally focused on arguing for African American reparations.Īllen, Robert L. The texts in this section detail major arguments in favor of reparations.
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