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Reparations / Anne Cunningham, book editor.

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New York, NY : Greenhaven Publishing, 2017.

Reparations for historical injustices -- United States.

9781534500259 (library binding)

1534500251 (library binding)

9781534500310 (paperback) :

1534500316 (paperback)

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

200 pages ; 24 cm.

Should countries with legacies of civil rights injustices compensate the descendants of those they have violated? Reparations have no rational basis in present-day U.S. society / David Horowitz -- Former colonialist powers owe assistance to their former colonies / Tim Lockley -- Victimized states need compensation from those who have reaped the benefit / Henry Theriault -- Immigrants deserve reparations and open borders / Joel Newman -- Indigenous reconciliation fosters healing / Sarah Maddison -- Does implementation of reparations achieve a satisfactory solution?. Reparations are excessively burdensome and counterproductive / Boundless -- Violent non-state entities should be forced to pay reparations to their victims / Luke Moffett -- Apology-based reparations signal empathy not responsibility / Nellie Green -- Condolence payments are politically expedient but imperfect / Cora Currier -- Legal reparations insufficiently settle moral debts to neighboring countries / Yuka Fujioka -- What form should reparations take?. Reparations would remedy white supremacy in America / David Schraub -- Reparations are an insult to African Americans / Stefan Spath -- We need more holistic understanding of reparations / Cecilia Cissell Lucas -- A correspondence model of reparations does not fully redress historical injustice / Sara Amighetti and Alasia Nuti -- Money won't compensate the theft of sacred land / Francine Uenuma and Mike Fritz -- Should later generations be blamed for injustices of the distant past?. Acknowledge the past to build a better future / Barack Obama -- Truth commissions force a reckoning with the past / Ken Butigan -- Forgetting is not the same as forgiving / Glenn Bracey -- We did not commit the wrongs that haunt Native Americans today / Kevin Gover -- We are all responsible for the past / Ken Taylor.

Should descendants of slaves be compensated for the suffering their ancestors endured? Should the losing side in a war be forced to pay the victor? When modern-day states confront long-ago atrocities, is acknowledgement and an apology enough? This fascinating examination of reparations offers opinions by leading experts on such past injustices as the Holocaust, the slave trade, the Armenian genocide, the forced relocation of Native Americans, and the Imperial Japanese Army's comfort women. An asset to any library, Reparations takes on the very uncomfortable issue of how governments and individuals can reckon with sins of the past. Bibliography, Detailed Table of Contents, Further Information Section, Index, Sidebars, Websites.

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