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Unjust Restitution: A Century of Black Struggle for Equality

Unjust Restitution: A Century of Black Struggle for Equality

Brown, Michael Kingsley

Hardcover

Black American HistoryGeneral Political ScienceRegional: South

ISBN10: 0520410106
ISBN13: 9780520410107
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Feb 4 2025
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The question of economic justice for Black Americans continues to be the subject of contentious political debate. Here, Michael K. Brown examines the meaning of racial equality during three transformative periods when economic opportunity appeared to be a real possibility: Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Political leaders who believed slavery and Jim Crow degraded Black people enacted policies to rehabilitate formerly subjugated individuals. Black Americans, on the other hand, repudiated the idea that they were damaged people in need of repair. Repeatedly, Black people's vision of economic justice was based on antiprivilege egalitarianism, the idea that a just restitution for their oppression required abolishing the political and legal privileges whites had acquired. Black opposition reveals what was at stake at each historical moment and what might constitute economic justice in the twenty-first century.

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