{"product_id":"9780814737248","title":"Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver since the unfulfilled promise of “forty acres and a mule,” America has consistently failed to confront the issue of racial injustice. Exploring why America has failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery, \u003cb\u003eLong Overdue\u003c\/b\u003e provides a history of the racial reparations movement and shows why it is an idea whose time has come.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Luther King, Jr., remarked in his “I Have a Dream” speech that America has given Black citizens a “bad check” marked “insufficient funds.” Yet apart from a few Black nationalists, the call for reparations has been peripheral to Black policy demands. Charles P. Henry examines Americans’unwillingness to confront this economic injustice, and crafts a skillful moral, political, economic, and historical argument for African American reparations, focusing on successful political cases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the wake of recent successes in South Africa and New Zealand, new models for reparations have recently found traction in a number of American cities and states, from Dallas to Baltimore and Virginia to California. By looking at other dispossessed groups — Native Americans, Holocaust survivors, and Japanese internment victims in the 1940s — Henry shows how some groups have won the fight for reparations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Hurricane Katrina made apparent, the legacy of racial segregation and economic disadvantage is never far below the surface in America. \u003cb\u003eLong Overdue\u003c\/b\u003e provides an up-to-date survey of the political and legislative efforts that are now breaking the surface to move reparations into the heart of our national discussion about race.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069263134960,"sku":"9780814737248","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814737248_p0.jpg?v=1769909387","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814737248","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}