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    From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

    By William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen

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    Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the U.S. government temporarily implemented a major redistribution of land from former slaveholders to the newly emancipated enslaved. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. Economic data indicates that for every dollar the average white household holds in wealth the average black household possesses a mere ten cents.

    In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. After opening the book with a stark assessment of the intergenerational effects of white supremacy on black economic well-being, Darity and Mullen look to both the past and the present to measure the inequalities borne of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs, they next assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War. Finally, Darity and Mullen offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery. Taken individually, any one of the three eras of injustice outlined by Darity and Mullen--slavery, Jim Crow, and modern-day discrimination--makes a powerful case for black reparations. Taken collectively, they are impossible to ignore.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
    Release dateMar 3, 2020
    ISBN9781469654980
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    William A. Darity Jr.

    William A. Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University.

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    • 4/5
      From Here to Equality, 2nd edition, by William Darity Jr and A Kirsten Mullen is an in depth and detailed look at the case for reparations as well as a plan for making them.I think as far as making the case, this volume succeeds very well. Only so much detail can be covered in a single book meant for the public, and plenty of detail is covered, but when the time comes for working out details much more will need to be considered. To have left out all of the history would not have made sense here, this is a book that both makes a case for and creates a plan for reparations. One can't plan without making the case.On reading, I don't see anything that just seems "wrong" in their plan, from who to include to how much. That isn't to say this will end up being the best plan, and perhaps ultimately the most workable plan that still accomplishes the goals will have to be more inclusive, which means altering it from reparations stemming from US slavery to reparations for the many wrongs that went into making the US a white supremacist nation and doing so by using or trying to eliminate entire populations.So while the case is, I think, made sufficiently well, I view the plan as an opening suggestion in what needs to be a comprehensive settlement but one that happens sooner rather than later. We can't keep this in committees and discussions without clear timetables and goals. At the same time we have to find a way to make the maximum change with one decision so that we aren't repeating this process for every group that has a justification in calling for reparation.Although this volume left me with as many questions as answers, I do feel like my questions are further along the path than they might otherwise be. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.
    • 5/5
      If your ancestors were slaves for 400 yrs and went through Jim Crowism for another 50 years , then you can comment on what is owed to Black Americans. If not, you can't understand who made this country great. This country would not be great without the 400 yrs of free labor. America owes us and everything they have will disappear until they do right by Black Amercans.
    • 5/5
      it is obvious that Jake Williams did NOT read this book. He just wanted to leave a lame comment...Him saying he is black? what does that mean? there are indian american in silicon valley who are the color of black too. then he goes on to talk about china we are in America...and morgan freeman is a celebrity that can do nothing for you...what a dumba55.
    • 1/5
      I’m black and I’ve had every opportunity I could ever ask for from living in America, if you chase your dreams you can achieve anything you want, I’m thankful to have been born in this country and not in countries like China where they keep everybody in misery or the Eu countries where you drown in bureaucracy. Stop this mad race war, stop dividing people, go listen to people like Morgan Freeman and learn how blessed we are.