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Download ! The Case for Black Reparations PDF by # Boris Bittker eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Case for Black Reparations Published by Toni Morrison when she was an editor, the book came from an unlikely source: Bittker was a white professor of law at Yale University who had long been ambivalent about the idea of reparations. Bittker carefully illuminates the historical provisions and statutes for legitimate claims to reparations, the national and international precedents for such claims, and most important, the obstacles to a national policy of reparations.. Through his research into the history and theory of repa
Title | : | The Case for Black Reparations |
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.44 (707 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0807009814 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-04-03 |
Language | : | English |
Professor Bittker’s purpose here is to show that the concept of black reparations is far from bizarre or unprecedented,’ and in this he has succeeded with unusual force.”New York Review of Books
Published by Toni Morrison when she was an editor, the book came from an unlikely source: Bittker was a white professor of law at Yale University who had long been ambivalent about the idea of reparations. Bittker carefully illuminates the historical provisions and statutes for legitimate claims to reparations, the national and international precedents for such claims, and most important, the obstacles to a national policy of reparations.. Through his research into the history and theory of reparations-namely the development and enforcement of lawsdesigned to compensate groups for injustices imposed on them-he found that it wasn't a'crazy, far-fetched idea.' In fact, beginning with post-Civil War demands for forty acres and a mule, African-American thinkers have long made the case that compensatory measures are justified not only for the injury of slavery but for the further setbacks of almost a century of Jim Crow laws and forced school and job segregation, measures that effectively blocked African-Ame
Impartial, logical look, at an emotional, oft dismissed issue Joey "There is neither wealth nor wisdom enough in the world to compensate in money for all the wrongs in history" Bittker quotes the New York Time's response to James Forman's Manifesto demanding Black Reparations. To which Bittker replies in a counter-question: "Should no wrongs be corrected unles. J. M. P. said This is an important book historically, though probably not. This is an important book historically, though probably not the most relevant if you're interested in contemporary arguments for and about black reparations. Written by a Yale law professor less than a decade following passage of the Civil Rights Act, Bittker's radical proposal was to pay repar. Collin Weyand said Is this guy serious?. So dumb and terribly weak arguments.
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