Predicting and Explaining Public Opinion Regarding U.S. Slavery Reparations

Campo, Shelly; Mastin, Teresa; Frazer, Marilee

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“…While there has been a plethora of scholarly work examining moral and legal arguments for and against reparations (Berg 2009; Conley 2003; Verdun 1993), in-depth, qualitative research on Blacks’ attitudes toward reparations are nearly nonexistent. What little we do know about Black views on reparations include surveys, such as a 1997 study commissioned by the television network ABC, a 2004 survey conducted by communications scholars (Campo, Mastin, and Frazer 2004) and a more recent poll produced by YouGov (2014). 16 Because these studies rely on quantitative data, we know little about the narratives and moral arguments that lie behind Blacks’ support for (or opposition to) repair.…”

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“… 16. Campo and her collaborators (2004) demonstrated that while Blacks favored reparations more frequently than whites, attitudes toward reparations in the United States was much less polarized around race than reported in the media. Further, support for reparations was generally mediated by whether respondents felt that forms of compensation and restitution would improve or damage race relations.…”

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Theorizing Ethnic and Racial Movements in the Global Age

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2015

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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In this essay, we reflect on the history and legacies of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and suggest avenues of future research of interest to scholars of ethnic and racial movements. First, we unpack how the Civil Rights Movement developed as a major movement utilizing both international and domestic influences. Second, we consider the central role of technology—including television and Internet communication technologies (ICTs)—in shaping contemporary ethnic and racial activism. In so doing, we aim to enhance scholarship on movements and efforts by those committed to challenging racial and ethnic disparities. Finally, we explore how the collective memories of past racial and ethnic struggles, including the Civil Rights Movement, are constructed. We argue that activists and their opposition have stakes in how past ethnoracial oppression and movements alike will be remembered and interpreted. Such memories and interpretations can serve as the basis for additional demands that activists make on power holders and influence actions of the powerful to resist such demands.

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Theorizing Ethnic and Racial Movements in the Global Age

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2015

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…To date, several state governments in the South have issued formal expressions of regret, but not full-fledged apologies, for their historical responsibility in perpetrating and profiting from the bondage of African Americans. 23 Perhaps more interesting than white resistance to critical discussions of slavery are the debates that take place among African Americans as they think about their own history of victimization. Challenging the assumption that African Americans would universally embrace a recounting of slavery, James Horton and Johanna Kardux argued that members of the black public may feel uncomfortable hearing about the horrors of bondage.…”

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Surrogation and the politics of remembering slavery in Savannah, Georgia (USA)

Alderman

2010

Journal of Historical Geography

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“…Fewer than 10% of White Americans support slavery reparations (Brophy, 2014). Suggestions of enduring White complicity and culpability are contentious when it comes to slavery, segregation, and socioeconomics (Campo et al, 2004). These things tarnish a tale.…”

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The crime of innocence and the depths of sorriness: Notes on apologies and reparations in the United States

Benson

2016

Cultural Dynamics

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In this article, I reflect on apologies and reparations as these themes relate to “sorriness,” a vernacular discourse which attributes blame for social problems onto African Americans. Drawing on an anthropological case study of White tobacco growers in North Carolina, I show how talk of sorriness reflects an emphasis on personal responsibility that is widespread in American culture and helps to legitimize punitive public policies and constrain efforts to address an astonishing wealth gap. Extending a critical analysis of how aspects of American culture impede apologies and reparations to specifically examine a dynamic of racialization that colors meanings and models of citizenship and status in tobacco country, I assess a textual economy of how saying “sorry” does something other than apologize and connect an intensive case study to a critique of how a broad culture of whiteness has a hard time with apologies and reparations. This article addresses the construction of American “innocence” on multiple levels and speaks to the politics of race and innocence amid deep historical burdens and debates and contestations that arise around affirmative action and reparations in the United States.

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Predicting and Explaining Public Opinion Regarding U.S. Slavery Reparations

Cited by 13 publications

References 9 publications

Theorizing Ethnic and Racial Movements in the Global Age

Theorizing Ethnic and Racial Movements in the Global Age

Surrogation and the politics of remembering slavery in Savannah, Georgia (USA)

The crime of innocence and the depths of sorriness: Notes on apologies and reparations in the United States

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