Part four
Sources and further reading
Everything above draws on the material below. Where a source is paywalled, your public library almost certainly has it.
Essays, reports and articles
- The Case for ReparationsTa-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 2014
- Why we need reparations for Black AmericansRashawn Ray and Andre M. Perry, Brookings, 2020
- Greater Wealth, Greater Uncertainty: Changes in Racial Inequality in the Survey of Consumer FinancesFederal Reserve, 2023
- What are micro-reparations, and can they really help close the racial wealth gap?The Conversation
- Research on reparations and the racial wealth gapNational Bureau of Economic Research
- Evanston approves reparations for Black residentsNPR, 2021
- Reparations for slaveryWikipedia overview, with extensive citations
Books
- From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First CenturyWilliam A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, 2020
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaRichard Rothstein, 2017
- The Case for Reparations (background and reception)Wikipedia
Government and law
- H.R. 40, Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans ActU.S. Congress
- California Reparations Task Force (AB 3121) and final reportCalifornia Department of Justice
- City of Evanston ReparationsCity of Evanston, Illinois
- Civil Liberties Act of 1988Densho Encyclopedia
- Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and ReparationUN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2005
Philadelphia research library
Tools built for this site from Philadelphia's open data. The only place on the site that links to them, by design.
- Research libraryWhat happened where you live: the hub for the tools below
- Look up an address1937 redlining grade, assessment and deed history, nearby public records
- Dataset catalog472 OpenDataPhilly datasets, 83 flagged for reparations research, 329 with live maps
- Redlining, then and nowWhat the HOLC map did and still predicts, and how to reproduce the analysis
- Philadelphia task force tracker74 records: the Task Force, its people, legislation, reports, data needs
Organizations
- National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC)Policy and the 10-point reparations plan
- N'COBRANational Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, since 1987
- Descendants Truth & Reconciliation FoundationJesuit and GU272 descendant partnership
- GU272 Descendants AssociationDescendant-led
- Coming to the TableDescendants of enslavers and the enslaved working together; reparations guide
- Reparations4SlaveryResources for white families pursuing personal reparations
- Equal Justice InitiativeLegacy Museum, lynching documentation, criminal justice
- NAACP Legal Defense FundCivil rights litigation and policy
- Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against GermanyHolocaust reparations administration
- Real Rent DuwamishMonthly "rent" to the Duwamish Tribe, Seattle
- LANDBACKNDN Collective campaign
- Native Land DigitalMap of Indigenous territories, languages and treaties
- First Nations Development InstituteNative-led economic development and land
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