Unjust Restitution

A Century of Black Struggle for Equality

Michael Kingsley Brown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41011-4 (ISBN)

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The question of economic justice for Black Americans continues to be the subject of contentious political debate. Here, Michael K. Brown examines the meaning of racial equality during three transformative periods when economic opportunity appeared to be a real possibility: Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Political leaders who believed slavery and Jim Crow degraded Black people enacted policies to rehabilitate formerly subjugated individuals. Black Americans, on the other hand, repudiated the idea that they were damaged people in need of repair. Repeatedly, Black people’s vision of economic justice was based on antiprivilege egalitarianism, the idea that a just restitution for their oppression required abolishing the political and legal privileges whites had acquired. Black opposition reveals what was at stake at each historical moment and what might constitute economic justice in the twenty-first century.

Michael K. Brown is Professor Emeritus of Politics at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of Race, Money, and the American Welfare State and coauthor of Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Colorblind Society.

Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Preface

Introduction: Race, Liberalism, and Equality of Opportunity
1 • The Political Invention of Equality of Opportunity, 1830–1860
2 • “What Shall We Do with the Negro?” Race and Liberalism in the Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865–1872
3 • Saving Sharecroppers? Black Tenant Farmers and the Southern Enclosure, 1934–1943
4 • Black Enclaves and the African American Quest for Land, 1880–1950
5 • The Revolution Stalled: The Southern War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement, 1964–1972
6 • What Does Racial Justice Require?

Appendix
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.01.2025
Zusatzinfo	3 b-w figures and 16 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-41011-4 / 0520410114
ISBN-13	978-0-520-41011-4 / 9780520410114
Zustand	Neuware