books about: reparations

books about: reparations

books:

Reparations

Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

Jennifer Lind

Cornell University Press, 2008

Timely, original, and clear
As the international spotlight moves east towards Asia, Jennifer Lind provides an insightful look at how historical remembrance of war crimes plays a key role in East Asia and other regions. By contrasting the German-France post-WWII experience with that of ...

What is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11

Kenneth R. Feinberg

PublicAffairs, 2005

great book
Overall i felt the book accomplished most of what it was after. after seeing mr feinberg on television i was moved by him and how the experience made him more "humanistic" but upon reading the novel i felt it missed the point It gave a very raw reason unto why the ...

Reparations: The Case for Black Reparations
Boris I. Bittker

Beacon Press, 2003

The groundbreaking first book on black reparations, essential reading for the twenty-first century Originally published in 1972, Boris Bittker's riveting study of America's debt to African-Americans was well ahead of its time. Published by Toni Morrison when she was an editor, the book came from an unlikely source: Bittker was a white professor ...

Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
Alfred L. Brophy

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble. Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts and court documents to chronicle this ...

Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Other Works 1921-1945 (The Writings of Melanie Klein, Volume 1)

Melanie Klein

Free Press, 2002

She is a helper
Al thought dear M.Klein, regarding her private life story, was quite unhappy and caught between circumstances she could not even dream in her worst nightmares she really gave us a masterpiece. The way of thinking, the way of connecting to patients is easier and her ...

Racist America: Roots, Current Realities and Future Reparations

Joe R. Feagin

Routledge, 2001

TELL IT LIKE IT IS, JOE!!
TELL IT LIKE IT IS, JOE!! This is what I wanted to yell out loud as I read through this wonderful book. It is so refreshing, especially in these conservative times in which we live, to know that there are white men who are willing to speak honestly about racism and the ...

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links

Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

An introduction to an essential field
This book is an introduction to the expanding analysis of slave trade, slavery, and other records that give us a concrete look at what parts of Africa and which societies and cultures, the millions of slaves who were brought to the New World came from and where they ...

Critical Issues in Restorative Justice

Criminal Justice Press, 2004

In a mere quarter-century, restorative justice has grown from a few scattered experimental projects into a worldwide social movement. Moving beyond its origins within the criminal justice arena, restorative justice is now being applied in schools, homes and the workplace. The restorative justice approach challenges the idea that state ...

Holy Hour of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Soul Assurance

CMJ Marian Publishers, 2001

A wonderful prayer during Adoration
This is the first prayer I ever used during Adoration. I had an immediate love for it. There is one particular part of the prayer that is my favorite. This prayer asks Jesus to remember the prayer you make now when, in your last minutes of life, you may no longer ...

Love, Hate and Reparation
Melanie Klein

W. W. Norton & Company, 1964

Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing
Margaret Urban Walker

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses to wrongdoing. Explaining the emotional bonds and normative expectations that keep human beings responsive to moral standards and responsible to each other, Margaret Urban Walker uses realistic examples of both personal betrayal and political violence to analyze how moral bonds are ...

Waging War, Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights
Susan Slyomovics

Left Coast Press, 2008

Humans are good at making war?and much less successful at making peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism, and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to make peace by taking a ...

Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their ...

Duke University Press, 2007

An exceptional resource, this comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary documents related to efforts to redress historical wrongs against African Americans. These varied efforts are often grouped together under the rubric ?reparations movement,? and they are united in their goal of ?repairing? the injustices that have followed ...

Daughters of the Diaspora Get Ready: A Prophetic Word for Black Women

Julie A. Gibson, 2006

This Book Is A Repairer of the Breach
This book is an inspirational word for the black woman struggling with the relentlessness of oppression she faces daily in a society that depreciates her value, discounts her opinions, despises her ethnicity, distrusts her presence, disallows her advancement and ...

Taking Responsibility for the Past: Reparation and Historical Injustice

Janna Thompson

Polity, 2003

Historicising Rawls
Janna Thompson provides a sophisticated and parsimonious theory of reparative justice. This is situated in relation to a more extensive theory of justice, according to which reparative claims based on past injustices must be balanced against claims of equity based on ...