When Sorry Isn't Enough : : The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice / / ed. by Roy L. Brooks.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PART 1. Introduction
- 1 The Age of Apology
- Suggested Readings
- PART 2. Nazi Persecution
- Introduction
- 2 A Reparations Success Story?
- The Scope of Persecution
- 3 The German Third Reich and Its Victims: Nazi Ideology
- Holocaust Narratives
- 4 Memories of My Childhood in the Holocaust
- 5 The Human “Guinea Pigs” of Ravensbrück
- 6 Stranger in Exile
- The National Security Defense
- 7 Putative National Security Defense: Extracts from the Testimony of Nazi SS Group Leader Otto Ohlendorf
- German Reparations
- 8 German Compensation for National Socialist Crimes: United States Department of Justice Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
- 9 Romani Victims of the Holocaust and Swiss Complicity
- 10 German Reparations: Institutionalized Insufficiency
- Suggested Readings
- PART 3. Comfort Women
- Introduction
- 11 What Form Redress?
- The Comfort Women System
- 12 The Jugun Ianfu System
- 13 Comfort Women Narratives: Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women
- 14 The Nanking Massacre
- 15 Japan’s Official Responses to Nanking
- The Redress Movement
- 16 The Comfort Women Redress Movement
- 17 Japan’s Official Responses to Reparations
- A Legal Analysis of Reparations
- 18 Japan’s Settlement of the Post–World War II Reparations and Claims
- 19 Reparations: A Legal Analysis
- An American Response
- 20 Lipinski Resolution
- Suggested Readings
- PART 4. Japanese Americans
- Introduction
- 21 Japanese American Redress and the American Political Process: A Unique Achievement?
- The Internment Experience
- 22 The Internment of Americans of Japanese Ancestry
- 23 Executive Order 9066: Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas
- 24 Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
- 25 Japanese American Narratives
- The Redress Movement
- 26 Relocation, Redress, and the Report: A Historical Appraisal
- Forms of Redress
- 27 Redress Achieved, 1983–1990
- 28 Institutions and Interest Groups: Understanding the Passage of the Japanese American Redress Bill
- 29 Proclamation 4417: Confirming the Termination of the Executive Order Authorizing Japanese-American Internment
- 30 Response to Criticisms of Monetary Redress
- 31 Testimony of Representative Norman Y. Mineta
- 32 German Americans, Italian Americans, and the Constitutionality of Reparations: Jacobs v. Barr
- 33 The Case of the Japanese Peruvians
- 34 Letters from John J. McCloy and Karl R. Bendetsen
- Suggested Readings
- PART 5. Native Americans
- Introduction
- 35 Wild Redress?
- The Native American Experience
- 36 Native American Reparations: Five Hundred Years and Counting
- Native American Narratives
- 37 The Killing of Big Snake, a Ponca Chief, October 31, 1879
- 38 The Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, December 29, 1890
- 39 How the Indians Are Victimized by Government Agents and Soldiers
- 40 Forced Removal of the Winnebago Indians, Nebraska, October 3, 1865
- The Redress Movement: Land Claim Litigation
- 41 Indian Claims for Reparations, Compensation, and Restitution in the United States Legal System
- The Redress Movement: Land Claim Legislation
- 42 The True Nature of Congress’s Power over Indian Claims: An Essay on Venetie and the Uses of Silence in Federal Indian Law
- Repatriation of Religious and Cultural Artifacts
- 43 Repatriation Must Heal Old Wounds
- Wealth, Redistribution, and Sovereignty
- 44 Office of the Governor, Pete Wilson, State of California, Press Release
- 45 Statement of the Honorable Anthony R. Pico, Chairman, Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Press Conference
- 46 The Distribution of Wealth, Sovereignty, and Culture through Indian Gaming
- Suggested Readings
- PART 6. Slavery
- Introduction
- 47 Not Even an Apology?
- The Slave and the Free Black Experience
- 48 The Legal Status of African Americans during the Colonial Period
- 49 African Americans under the Antebellum Constitution: Supreme Court of the United States
- 50 Slave Narratives
- 51 Remembering Slavery
- 52 Life as a Free Black
- The Redress Movement
- 53 The Growing Movement for Reparations
- Forms of Redress: Apology
- 54 Why the North and South Should Have Apologized
- 55 Defense of Congressional Resolution Apologizing for Slavery
- 56 Clinton Opposes Slavery Apology
- 57 Ask Camille: Camille Paglia’s Online Advice for the Culturally Disgruntled
- 58 The Atlantic Slave Trade: On Both Sides, Reason for Remorse
- 59 They Didn’t March to Free the Slaves
- 60 Lincoln Apologizes
- Forms of Redress: Reparations
- 61 Special Field Order No. 15: “Forty Acres and a Mule”
- 62 The Commission to Study Reparations Proposals
- 63 Clinton and Conservatives Oppose Slavery Reparations
- 64 Collective Rehabilitation
- 65 The Constitutionality of Black Reparations
- Suggested Readings
- PART 7. Jim Crow
- Introduction
- 66 Redress for Racism?
- The Jim Crow Experience
- 67 The Triumph of White Supremacy
- Jim Crow Narratives
- 68 Jim Crow Narratives
- Forms of Redress
- 69 The United States Has Already Apologized for Racial Discrimination
- 70 The Long-Overdue Reparations for African Americans: Necessary for Societal Survival?
- 71 Reparations: Strategic Considerations for Black Americans
- 72 Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim-Crowism
- 73 Rosewood
- Suggested Readings
- PART 8. South Africa
- Introduction
- 74 What Price Reconciliation?
- The Apartheid Experience
- 75 African National Congress Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Apartheid Narratives
- 76 Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Amnesty Hearing: Testimony of Jeffrey T. Benzien
- 77 Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Amnesty Hearing: Affidavit and Testimony of Bassie Mkhumbuzi
- The Redress Movement
- 78 Alternatives and Adjuncts to Criminal Prosecutions
- Forms of Redress
- 79 Summary of Anti-Amnesty Case: Azanian Peoples Organization (AZAPO) and Others v. The President of the Republic of South Africa
- 80 Justice after Apartheid? Reflections on the South African TRC
- 81 Will the Amnesty Process Foster Reconciliation among South Africans?
- 82 Healing Racial Wounds? The Final Report of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- 83 Introductory Notes to the Presentation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Proposed Reparation and Rehabilitation Policies
- 84 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearing, Testimony of Former President F. W. de Klerk
- 85 Affirmative Action as Reparation for Past Employment Discrimination in South Africa: Imperfect and Complex
- Suggested Readings
- Appendix: Selected List of Other Human Injustices
- Contributors
- Permissions
- Index
- About the Editor