Heirs of Oppression : Racism and Reparations.
Title:
Heirs of Oppression : Racism and Reparations.
Author:
Corlett, Angelo J.
ISBN:
9781442208162
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (325 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Reparations -- Part I: Utilitarian Approaches to Reparations -- 2 Cosmopolitanism and Compensatory Justice -- 3 Utilitarianism and Historic Injustice -- Part II: A Rights-Based Approach to Reparations -- 4 Reparations as a Human Right -- 5 Collective Responsibility and Reparations -- 6 Reparations to American Indians -- 7 Reparations to Blacks -- 8 Reparations and Reconciliation -- 9 Possible Reparations Policies -- Part III: Challenges to Reparations -- 10 Objections to Reparations, and Replies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Packing his case with moral argument and relevant facts, Angelo Corlett offers the most comprehensive defense to date in favor of reparations for African Americans and American Indians. As Corlett see it, the heirs of oppression are both the descendants of the oppressors and the descendants of their victims. Corlett delves deeply into the philosophically related issues of collective responsibility, forgiveness and apology, and reparations as a human right in ways that no other book or article to date has done.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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