From Here to Equality

Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

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ID19983957
AuthorsWilliam Darity (0000-0003-1358-9101), William A Jr Darity, A Kirsten Mullen, William A Darity, Angie Mullen
Year2020
Pages424
Publication date2020-03-03
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byFrom Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, Charles P Henry, 2021
VenueFrom Here to Equality (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
OpenAlexW3011449592
Open LibraryOL28090536M
ISBN9781469654973
LanguageEN
Citations received40

"Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In 'From Here to Equality,' William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. After opening the book with a stark assessment of the intergenerational effects of white supremacy on black economic well-being, Darity and Mullen look to both the past and the present to measure the inequalities borne of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs, they next assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War. Finally, Darity and Mullen offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery. Taken individually, any one of the three eras of injustice outlined by Darity and Mullen--slavery, Jim Crow, and modern-day discrimination--makes a powerful case for black reparations"

Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Redistribution (election) · Sociology · White (mutation) · White supremacy · History · Law · Property Rights and Legal Doctrine · Race, History, and American Society · African American Studies · African americans · African Americans_Civil Rights · Civil rights · Ethnic Studies · Income distribution · Race discrimination · race relations · Reparations · Slavery · Slavery, history · Social Science · united states

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