Image: Juneteenth Reparations Rally, June 19, 2020 (Flickr/Fibonnaci Blue)
BOOKS
Ana Lucia Araujo: Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History.
Hilary McD. Beckles: Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide.
Mary Frances Berry: My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations.
Roy L. Brooks: Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations.
William A. Darity: From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.
Agustina del Campo, Claudio Grossman, & Mina A. Trudeau: International Law and Reparations: The Inter-American System.
Katherine Franke: Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition.
Sarah Goldy-Brown: Reparations for Slavery: the Fight for Compensation. (For children.)
Sherrilyn A. Ifill: On the Courthouse Lawn, Revised Edition: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century.
Michael T. Martin & Marilyn Yaquinto: Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies.
W. Caleb McDaniel: Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America.
Susan Neiman: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò: Reconsidering Reparations.
ORGANIZATIONS
Coming to the Table reparations Working Group.
Movement 4 Black Lives: Reparations Monday.
National African American Reparations Commission.
ARTICLES
Adedayo Akala: Cost Of Racism: U.S. Economy Lost $16 Trillion Because Of Discrimination, Bank Says.
Ana Lucia Araujo: The centuries-long fight for reparations.
Ana Lucia Araujo: Reparations NOW: Global and Historical Receipts with Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo. (Podcast).
Roy L. Brooks: Reparations are an opportunity to turn a corner on race relations.
Ta-Nehisi Coates:
- The Case for Reparations: Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
- Audio interview: Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations.
- Video + article: Here’s What Ta-Nehisi Coates Told Congress About Reparations: The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.
Code Switch (podcast):
Thomas Craemer, Trevor Smith, Brianna Harrison, Trevon Logan, Wesley Bellamy & William Darity Jr. Wealth Implications of Slavery and Racial Discrimination for African American Descendants of the Enslaved.
William A. Darity:
- Reparations Are a Concrete Way to Address Systemic Racism and Inequality.
- ‘From Here to Equality’ Author Makes A Case, And A Plan, For Reparations.
- TED Talk: How do we span the racial wealth gap?
Ashley Dennis: Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Century.
Ashley Farmer: Audley Moore and the Modern Reparations Movement.
Emma Goldberg: How Reparations for Slavery Became a 2020 Campaign Issue.
Nikole Hannah-Jones: What is Owed: If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans.
Nikole Hannah-Jones (in depth NPR interview): A Call For Reparations: Nikole Hannah-Jones On The Wealth Gap.
Nikole Hannah-Jones (in depth NPR interview): A Call For Reparations: How America Might Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap.
Paul Hébert: Garveyism, Black Power, and the Intellectual History of the CARICOM Reparations Case.
W. Caleb McDaniel: In 1870, Henrietta Wood Sued for Reparations—and Won: The $2,500 verdict, the largest ever of its kind, offers evidence of the generational impact such awards can have.
Guy Emerson Mount: Can Reparations Save American Politics?
Guy Emerson Mount: Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations.
Alondra Nelson (podcast): Who Should Receive Reparations for Slavery and Discrimination?
NPR: Reparations Can — And Should — Take Many Forms, Says Human Rights Researcher.
Verene A. Shepherd: Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’: A Blueprint for Reparations.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Consequences of Forgetting: We live in a country built off slavery and anti-black racism. The struggle for reparations is about remembering that, and fighting for a better future for all working people.