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Biblical scholars, theologians, and religious historians have largely ignored the issue of reparations. The time is now to engage with and make the case. Written for students, scholars, and pastors, the essays in Reparations and the Theological Disciplines emphatically advocate for a reparational ethic of remembrance, reckoning, and repair.

Canadian First Nations (Indians) are said to suffer historical trauma from attendance at residential schools, through loss of culture passed down across generations. But the empirical evidence for this claim is weak. Less than a third of Canadian Indians ever attended residential schools, and the average period of attendance was only 4.5 years. Moreover, the research on intergenerational trauma arising from attendance at the residential schools suffers from numerous methodological weaknesses described in detail in the paper. Claims of intergenerational trauma are being used to justify demands for reparations, but that amounts to transferring wealth from contemporary people who have done nothing wrong to other contemporary people who have suffered no wrong.

This article considers the issue of reparation for slavery and the
claim for reparation advanced by African states against the West. The
paper begins by briefly outlining the principles relating to State
responsibility and reparation in international law, and gives an overview
of the recognised forms of legal reparation that exist. The paper then
provides some exploratory discussion on the issue of reparation for
slavery. It is exploratory in the sense that this is a matter which has
received scant attention in recent international law literature. As
regards the current call for reparation, the author identifies the
weaknesses of legal claims within the existing international law paradigm
of State responsibility. As an alternative, the paper considers ways in
which political strategies might be employed to achieve reparation. In
particular, the author aims to align calls for reparation for slavery
with existing claims to development by African states, as a means
by which a moral global economy can be achieved. In this regard, the
author considers the feasibility of the different forms of reparation,
insofar as they are able to underpin and advance the idea of a moral
global economy. The paper also briefly examines the issue of reparation
for colonialism and considers how the insights as regards reparation for
slavery might be useful in relation to reparation claims for colonialism.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- On Redress for Racial Injustice -- Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege -- Introduction -- Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy -- Race Preferences and Race Privileges -- A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality -- Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State -- Introduction -- The Case for Reparations -- Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations -- The Constitutionality of Black Reparations -- The Theory of Restitution -- Reparations to African Americans? -- Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress -- Introduction -- ''A Day of Reckoning'' -- Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith -- The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America -- The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism -- The Rise of the Reparations Movement -- Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention -- Introduction -- Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery -- Railroads, Race, and Reparations -- Reparations -- Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty -- Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies -- Introduction -- The Politics of Racial Reparations -- The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans -- The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations -- Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow -- What's Next? -- The Reparations Movement -- Reparations -- Tulsa Reparations -- Race for Power -- Documents -- Introduction -- Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions -- Section 2. State Legislation -- Section 3. Municipal Resolutions -- Section 4. Advocacy and Activism -- Section 5. Case Studies of Redress -- Section 6. Lawsuits -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights -- Index

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