Chiabi, I. (2022). The Road to Reparations: A Comparison Between the United States and South Africa.Web.
Both countries’ black populations have been negatively impacted by white supremacy and slavery, which have benefited the white majority and kept minorities in their place. To atone for wrongs and secure a better future for the Black population, reparations should be used in each country to close the white-Black wealth gap. This paper is meant to share an epiphany about approaching this sensitive topic. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the insight into how to broach this delicate subject.
Garibay, J. C., Mathis, C. L., & West, C. P. (2022). Black student views on higher education reparations at a university with an enslavement history. Race Ethnicity and Education, 25(5), 607-628. Web.
There is no investigation into how Black college students feel about making amends for slavery. We use Critical Race Quantitative Inquiry and Black Radical Imagination theories to determine how much Black undergraduates at a Southern university with a history of slavery support various types of university reparations. According to a survey of 92 Black college students, most agreed that universities should provide reparations, particularly for transformative measures. Furthermore, the statistical model shows that gender, racial ideology, support from faculty of color, and more robust emotional responses to the university’s slavery history can all predict support for university reparations.
Inwood, J. F., Livia Brand, A., & Quinn, E. A. (2021). Racial capital, abolition, and a geographic argument for reparations. Antipode, 53(4), 1083-1103. Web.
The article highlights the journey of Lehman Brothers from a dry goods store in Montgomery, Alabama, to a Fortune 500 global financial services company that declared bankruptcy during the 2007 financial crisis. In comprehending how racial capitalism operates in the United States, there is an investigation into the origins of race and capital. The geographic imperative of capital requires that distinctions between people of different races be made and exploited to maximize their labor’s value. The article argues that the geographic case for reparations may be the most important geographically. Repairs that do not fundamentally alter, destabilize, or break the system are doomed to be band-aids for long-term structural issues. This is because the system is racialized in ways that extend and advance exploitation practices.
Jones, V. N., & McElderry, C. G. (2021). Social work and reparations: Applying a restorative justice approach. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 1-10. Web.
Reparations for chattel slavery and persistent social and economic inequalities are two examples of justice issues that require the attention of social workers. The exploration of reparations options has the potential to benefit the field of social work greatly. Restorative justice provides a group process for African American descendants to make amends for wrongdoings while determining the appropriate form of redress. Social workers can make a significant contribution by advocating for the inclusion of reparations on policy agendas.
Jones, V. N., McElderry, C. G., & Conner, L. R. (2022). Social workers’ attitudes toward reparations for African American descendants. Journal of Social Work, 22(4), 1031-1055. Web.
At its most basic, reparations for African Americans attempt to make amends for the mistreatment of people of African descent over hundreds of years. Growing income and death disparities between races are long-term consequences of chattel slavery. The United States government has made no official statements about the wrongs caused by chattel slavery or what happened after it. Social workers are responsible for fighting for social equality and the rights of the less fortunate. As a result, this study aims to examine how social workers feel about making amends for wrongs done to African-American descendants. The survey results were examined using statistical tests and correlation tests.
Klein, E., & Fouksman, E. (2022). Reparations as a Rightful Share: From Universalism to Redress in Distributive Justice. Development and Change, 53(1), 31-57. Web.
A mechanism for the distribution of unconditional and universal resources, such as universal basic income, acknowledges the shared origins of the wealth created by previous generations. However, in the production process and the creation of wealth, certain groups have lost much more than others and suffered much more due to colonization, slavery, and appropriation. This article argues that the universalist case for distributive justice must consider the critical qualification provided by reparations calls. The article’s central point is that when wealth is distributed using a universal and unconditional mechanism, some communities have lost and suffered much more than others in producing and creating wealth. This is attributable primarily to the effects of colonization, slavery, and appropriation. This is accomplished by looking at three different kinds of reparations requests: those on slavery, those about transnational inequalities brought about by European colonization, and those of the displacement of indigenous peoples brought about by the spread of settler colonialism.
The authors place these three examples in contrast with the universalist (re)distributionist argument. They oppose the concept that a universal but redistributive rightful share could serve as redress for capitalism’s unjust appropriation and wealth accumulation. This article distinguishes between distributive justice and reparatory justice, focusing on the overlap and friction between universal redistribution demands and a wide range of redistribution demands that include recognition.
Philogene Heron, A. (2022). Goodnight Colston. Mourning Slavery: Death Rites and Duppy Conquering in a Circum‐Atlantic City. Antipode, 54(4), 1251-1276. Web.
The article covers an ethnographic journey through Bristol, a city on the other side of the Atlantic haunted by the ghosts of slavery following the riotous procession that toppled Edward Colston’s statue. The paper proposes a cosmological reading of toppling and water burial in Caribbean cosmology as a form of duppy conquering. It is due to the toppling and water burial being a necessary act of social renewal that allows for spiritual and emotional healing processes. The paper then examines the afterlife of Atlantic slavery through two restoration rituals: a memorial service for a slave woman and an unfinished ancestral invocation on an empty plinth.
Udombana, N. J. (2020). Atonement Makes All Things New: Reparations for Historical Crimes Against Africa. Available at SSRN 3746661. Web.
The effects of slavery and colonialism on African people and the continent are investigated in this paper. It argues that under international law, victims should be able to seek restitution for the harm caused by these crimes, both financially and morally, and that they should be able to do so. It argues that such claims have a basis in justice, which supports responsibility, particularly in light of the seriousness of crimes that have been committed in the past.