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In the 20th century, the country issued reparations for Japanese American internment, Native land seizures, massacres and police brutality. Will slavery be next?
Reparations, a levy on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winners. The most prominent example is the reparations levied on Germany after World War I to compensate the Allies for some of their war costs. Learn more about reparations and their use in this article.
THE COST OF INHERITANCE, an America ReFramed special, explores the complex issue of reparations in the U.S. using a thoughtful approach to history, historical injustices, systemic inequities,...
The Holocaust. The closest analogue to reparations for slavery and Jim Crow is probably the reparations that West Germany agreed to pay after the Holocaust. A major component was the $7 billion...
Examples include Japanese-Americans interned during World War II; survivors of police abuses in Chicago; victims of forced sterilization; and black residents of a Florida town that was burned by...
Some illustrative examples. The payments from 1952-1990 are taken from the booklet Black Reparations Now! 40 Acres, $50 Dollars, and a Mule, + Interest by Dorothy Benton-Lewis. 1952: Germany: $822 million to Holocaust survivors: German Jewish Settlement.
The idea of paying reparations or making other amends for slavery and discrimination has a long history in the United States. 1783. A freedwoman named Belinda Sutton, also known as Belinda...
Time-travel across the history of anti-Black violence in the United States, inspired by the prose of Ta-Nehisi Coates, and go on a journey to (re)discover the call for Black reparations. Use Disrupting the Reparations Timeline as a guide through Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations.”
First we’ll look at examples of reparations that have been made to other communities across the globe. Next, we’ll trace the history of the arguments for and against reparations to Black...
Here we spotlight four examples of those scholars’ work: 1. Despite gains, persistent racial gaps remain. While researching his book “ Making Whole What Has Been Smashed,” John Torpey learned...