Africans on Reparations: An Analysis of Elite and Activist Opinion

Lombardo, Anthony P.; Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.

doi:10.1080/00083968.2005.10751328

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“…In interviews we conducted about reparations from 2002 to 2004 with seventy-five African ambassadors, academics, policymakers, and human rights activists, many indicated awareness of reparations made to Jewish victims of the Holocaust and their survivors. (Lombardo & Howard-Hassmann 2005). Some were also aware of reparations paid to Japanese Americans, and most were aware of the nascent movement for reparations to African Americans.…”

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Framing Reparations Claims: Differences between the African and Jewish Social Movements for Reparations

Howard-Hassmann¹,

Lombardo²

2007

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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Abstract:Africans interested in reparations from the West frequently ask why the Jewish movement for reparations for the Holocaust was successful, whereas Africans have been unable to obtain reparations for the slave trade, colonialism, and post-colonial relations with the West. This article addresses this question using social movement theory and argues that success depends to a large extent on how the claim for reparations is framed. Past treatment of Africans by the West violated key contemporary norms of bodily integrity, equality, and private property. Yet the victims are no longer living, the perpetrators are diffuse, some of the harms were legal when they were committed, and the causal chain of harm is long and complex.

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Framing Reparations Claims: Differences between the African and Jewish Social Movements for Reparations

Howard-Hassmann¹,

Lombardo²

2007

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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“…Ironically, a successful claim by Africans against the U.S. government could mean that African Americans might very well be forced to contribute to this reparation even though they are the descendants of these very slaves (see Du Plessis, 2003, p. 626). Recent surveys of Africans indicate that most believe Western governments have a moral obligation to compensate for past injuries, including those inflicted by multinational corporations involved in neocolonialism and globalization (Lombardo & Howard-Hassmann, 2005, p. 530).…”

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From Slavery to Genocide

Cooper

2011

Journal of Black Studies

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This paper analyzes the failure of the ‘Reparations for Slavery’ movement within the African American community over the past century. It argues that the association of reparations with a “debt” has complicated the ability to win legal arguments for reparations. The author asserts that a stronger legal case can be made by arguing that the Jim Crow era constituted a form of genocide as defined by the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, and that a potential reparations claim made on this basis can overcome the obstacles that have thus far defeated previous reparation law suits.

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Africans on Reparations: An Analysis of Elite and Activist Opinion

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Framing Reparations Claims: Differences between the African and Jewish Social Movements for Reparations

Framing Reparations Claims: Differences between the African and Jewish Social Movements for Reparations

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