Unjust Restitution

A Century of Black Struggle for Equality

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvMichael Kingsley Brown

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The question of economic justice for Black Americans continues to be the subject of contentious political debate. Here, Michael K. Brown examines the meaning of racial equality during three transformative periods when economic opportunity appeared to be a real possibility: Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Political leaders who believed slavery and Jim Crow degraded Black people enacted policies to rehabilitate formerly subjugated individuals. Black Americans, on the other hand, repudiated the idea that they were damaged people in need of repair. Repeatedly, Black people’s vision of economic justice was based on antiprivilege egalitarianism, the idea that a just restitution for their oppression required abolishing the political and legal privileges whites had acquired. Black opposition reveals what was at stake at each historical moment and what might constitute economic justice in the twenty-first century.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-04
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor344
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520410114

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ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface Introduction: Race, Liberalism, and Equality of Opportunity 1 • The Political Invention of Equality of Opportunity, 1830–1860 2 • “What Shall We Do with the Negro?” Race and Liberalism in the Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865–1872 3 • Saving Sharecroppers? Black Tenant Farmers and the Southern Enclosure, 1934–1943 4 • Black Enclaves and the African American Quest for Land, 1880–1950 5 • The Revolution Stalled: The Southern War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964–1972 6 • What Does Racial Justice Require? Appendix Notes Select Bibliography Index

“A compelling argument about the need to reconceptualize what is necessary to truly achieve equality of opportunity. Brown’s work is deeply researched and demonstrates deep attention to the relationship between federal policy and stakeholders in local communities. Brown makes it clear that African American communities have long held a broader vision of equality of opportunity than their allies among government or reform communities. Recapturing this intellectual tradition may be the key to offering true liberation."