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Title: The Economics of Reparations

Citation Type: Book, Section

Publication Year: 2005

ISBN: 9780742568594

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Abstract: There is a nationwide movement and debate over the claim by African Americans for compensation for the enslavement of their ancestors. This chapter presents a brief introduction to the economics of reparations to African Americans for slavery and decades of Jim Crow practices. We first explore the black-white wealth differential as a basis for the reparations movement. We then propose two criterions to determine eligibility for reparations. Finally, we discuss the size of a reparations payment and how the way in which it is financed and distributed effects the incomes of blacks as well as nonblacks.

Url: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=c8UeEX7ZPBIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA334&ots=w73b32OByS&sig=ZYzmoxzQA3NT9JLku6audNE75r8#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Authors: Darity, William A Jr.; Frank, Dania

Editors: Conrad, Cecilia A.; Whitehead, John; Mason, Patrick L.; Stewart, James

Pages: 334-339

Volume Title: African Americans in the U.S. Econom

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Publisher Location: Lanham, MD

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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