Black Reparations Project

William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, Economics, and Business and founding director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.  A. Kirsten Mullen is a folklorist and the founder of Artefactual, an arts consulting practice, and Carolina Circuit Writers, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas. Her most recent book is From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.  Lucas Hubbard is an associate in research at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. His writing has appeared in INDY Week, Duke Magazine, Paste, and Deadspin; he is also one of the editors of The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, and Lucas HubbardPART ONE: THE CONTEXT AND CASES FOR REPARATIONS1 Where Does Black Reparations in America Stand?William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen2 Wealth Implications of Slavery and Racial Discrimination for African American Descendants of the EnslavedThomas Craemer, Trevor Smith, Brianna Harrison, Trevon D. Logan, Wesley Bellamy, and William A. Darity Jr.3 Unequal Housing and the Case for ReparationsWalter D. Greason4 Educational Inequities and the Case for ReparationsMalik Edwards5 The African American Health Burden: Disproportionate and UnresolvedKeisha L. Bentley-EdwardsPART TWO: THE PATH TO REPARATIONS AND RELATED CONSIDERATIONS6 Learning from Past Experiences with ReparationsA. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr.7 Considerations for the Design of a Reparations PlanTrevon D. Logan8 Reparations and Adult Education: Civic and Community Engagement for Lifelong LearnersLisa R. Brown9 The Children of Slavery: Genealogical Research and the Establishment of Eligibility for ReparationsEvelyn A. McDowell10 On the Black Reparations Highway: Avoiding the DetoursWilliam A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten MullenAppendix A. List of Documented Massacres and Instances of Mob Violence Perpetrated against Black Individuals, Civil War through 1950 Appendix B. Sample Pedigree Chart and Family Group Sheet from Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle PassageThe Reparations Planning CommitteeIndex

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