Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations - Softcover

Brooks, Roy L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520248139 ISBN 13: 9780520248137

Verlag: University of California Press, 2006

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Book by Brooks Roy L

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"An enormously important issue. Brooks... opens up the debate in a significant and constructive way.... [The book] is a significant addition to the dialogue and he [Brooks] should be congratulated for that; but more than that he should be engaged." - Mark Welch, Metapsychology Online Review "Roy Brooks' atonement model makes a singularly important contribution to the reparations debate. He argues that racial reconciliation in the United States can be achieved through reparations for American slavery and Jim Crow segregation, if such reparations are conceptualized in terms of atonement." - Melissa Nobles, MIT, author of Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics "In my Case for Black Reparations, published in 1973, I called for a national debate on this painful subject. Professor Brooks has responded magnificently to this appeal, with a comprehensive and painstakingly thoughtful analysis of all aspects of this area. His book, in my opinion, will certainly become the standard examination of the issue. I recommend it with unqualified enthusiasm." - Boris I. Bittker, Professor Emeritus of Law, Yale University"

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Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. "Atonement and Forgiveness" shifts the focus of the issue from the backward-looking question of compensation for victims to a more forward-looking racial reconciliation. Offering a comprehensive discussion of the history of the black redress movement, this book puts forward a powerful new plan for repairing the damaged relationship between the federal government and black Americans in the aftermath of 240 years of slavery and another 100 years of government-sanctioned racial segregation. Key to Brooks' vision is the government's clear signal that it understands the magnitude of the atrocity it committed against an innocent people, that it takes full responsibility, and that it publicly requests forgiveness - in other words, that it apologizes. The government must make that apology believable, Brooks explains, by a tangible act that turns the rhetoric of apology into a meaningful, material reality, that is, by reparation. Apology and reparation together constitutes atonement. Atonement, in turn, imposes a reciprocal civic obligation on black Americans to forgive, which allows black Americans to start relinquishing racial resentment and to begin trusting the government's commitment to racial equality. Brooks' bold proposal situates the argument for reparations within a larger, international framework - namely, a post-Holocaust vision of government responsibility for genocide, slavery, apartheid, and similar acts of injustice. "Atonement and Forgiveness" makes a passionate, convincing case that only with this spirit of heightened morality, identity, egalitarianism, and restorative justice can genuine racial reconciliation take place in America.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0520248139
• ISBN 13: 9780520248137
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344