| Description |
xx, 536 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Critical America |
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Critical America.
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| Note |
"This anthology is a collection of essays, written by both internationally renowned and emerging scholars, and of public documents that concern claims from around the world which seek redress for human injustice"--Preface. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Age of apology / Roy L. Brooks -- A Reparations success story? / Roy L. Brooks. -- The German Third Reich and its victims : Nazi ideology / Alan Davies -- Memories of my childhood in the holocaust / Judith Jaegermann (née Pinczovsky) -- The Human "guinea pigs" of Ravensbruck / Wanda Poltawska -- Stranger in exile / Ruth Levor -- Putative national security defense : extracts from the testimony of Nazi SS group leader Otto Ohlendorf -- German compensation for national socialist crimes / United States Department of Justice Foreign Claims Settlement Commission -- Romani victims of the holocaust and Swiss complicity / Ian Hancock -- German reparations : institutionalized insufficiency / Hubert Kim -- What form redress? / Roy L. Brooks -- The Jugun Ianfu system / Karen Parker and Jennifer F. Chew -- Comfort women narratives : report of the special rapporteur on violence against women -- The Nanking Massacre / Iris Chang -- Japan's official responses to Nanking -- The Comfort women redress movement / George Hicks -- Japan's official responses to reparations -- Japan's settlement of the post-World War II reparations and claims / Tetsuo Ito -- Reparations : a legal analysis / Karen Parker and Jennifer F. Chew -- Lipinski resolution -- Japanese American redress and the American political process : a unique achievement? / Roy L. Brooks -- The Internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry / Sandra Taylor -- Executive order 9066 : authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe military areas -- Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and internment of civilians -- Japanese American narratives / Roy L. Brooks -- Relocation, redress, and the report : a historical appraisal / Roger Daniels -- Redress achieved, 1983-1990 / Roger Daniels -- Institutions and interest groups : understanding the passage of the Japanese American Redress Bill / Leslie T. Hatamiya -- Proclamation 4417 : confirming the termination of the executive order authorizing Japanese-American internment -- Response to criticisms of monetary redress / Roger Daniels -- Testimony of Representative Norman Y. Mineta -- German Americans, Italian Americans, and the constitutionality of reparations : Jacobs v. Barr -- The Case of the Japanese Peruvians -- Letters from John J. McCloy and Karl R. Bendetsen -- Wild redress? / Roy L. Brooks -- Native American reparations : five hundred years and counting / Laurence Armand French -- The Killing of Big Snake, a Ponca Chief, October 31, 1879 / Hairy Bear -- The Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, December 29, 1890 / Turning Hawk and American Horse (Sioux) -- How the Indians are victimized by government agents and soldiers / Palaneapope -- Forced removal of the Winnebago Indians, Nebraska, October 3, 1865 / Chief Little Hill -- Indian claims for reparations, compensation, and restitution in the United States legal system / Nell Jessup Newton -- The True nature of congress's power over Indian claims : an essay on Venetie and the uses of silence in federal Indian law / Robert A. Williams, Jr. -- Repatriation must heal old wounds / Rick Hill -- Office of Governor, Pete Wilson, State of California, Press Release -- Statement of the Honorable Anthony R. Pico, Chairman, Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Press Conference -- The Distribution of wealth, sovereignty, and culture through Indian gaming / Naomi Mezey -- Not even an apology? / Roy L. Brooks -- The Legal status of African Americans during the colonnial period / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. -- African Americans under the antebellum constitution / Supreme Court of the United States -- Slave narratives / Roy L. Brooks -- Remembering slavery / Jennifer Fleischner -- Life as a free black / James Grahame -- The Growing movement for reparations / Joe R. Feagin and Eileen O'Brien -- Why the North and South should have apologized / James Grahame -- Defense of congressional resolution apologizing / Tony P. Hall -- Clinton opposes slavery apology -- Ask Camille : Camille Paglia's online advice for the culturally disgruntled / Camille Paglia -- The Atlantic slave trade : on both sides, reason for remorse / Howard F. French -- They didn't march to free the slaves / Robert S. McElvaine -- Lincoln apologizes / Thomas Geoghegan -- Special field order no. 15 : "Forty Acres and a Mule" -- The Commission to Study Reparations Proposals / John Conyers -- Clinton and conservatives oppose slavery reparations / Mary E. Smith -- Collective rehabilitation / Darrell L. Pugh -- The Constitutionality of Black reparations / Boris I. Bittker and Roy L. Brooks -- Redress for racism? / Roy L. Brooks -- The Triumph of white supremacy / John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr. -- Jim Crow narratives / Abby Snyder -- The United States has already apologized for racial discrimination / Bernard H. Siegan -- The Long-overdue reparations for African Americans : necessary for societal survival? / Joe R. Feagin and Eileen O'Brien -- Reparations : strategic considerations for Black Americans / C.J. Munford -- Repatriation as reparations for slavery and Jim-Crowism / Robert Johnson, Jr. -- Rosewood / Kenneth B. Nunn -- What price reconciliation? / Roy L. Brooks -- African national congress statement to the Truth and Reconcilation Commission -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission, amnesty hearing : testimony of Jeffrey T. Benzien -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission, amnesty hearing : affifavit and testimony of Bassie Mkjumbuzi -- Alternatives and adjuncts to criminal prosecutions / Alexander Boraine -- Summary of anti-amnesty case : Azanian Peoples Organization (AZAPO) and others v. The President of the Republic of South Africa -- Justice after apartheid? Reflections on the South African TRC / Wilhelm Verwoerd -- Will the amnesty process foster reconciliation among South Africans? / Emily H. McCarthy -- Healing racial wounds? The Final Report of the South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Eric K. Yamamoto and Susan K. Serrano -- Introductory notes to the Presentation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's proposed reparation and rehabilitation policies / Hlengiwe Mkhize -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing, testimony of former president F.W. de Klerk -- Affirmative action as reparation for past employment discrimination in South Africa : imperfect and complex / Linda Human. |
| Subject |
Social justice.
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Claims.
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| Added Author |
Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon), 1950-
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| ISBN |
0814713319 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814713310 cloth alkaline paper |
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0814713327 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780814713327 paperback alkaline paper |
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