Overcoming Historical Injustices

Author : James L. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521517885
Total Pages : 329 pages
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Download or read book Overcoming Historical Injustices written by James L. Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the judgements South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past, focusing on historical land dispossessions.

Author : James L. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521144407
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Overcoming Historical Injustices South Africa Edition written by James L. Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming Historical Land Injustices in South Africa is the last entry in Gibson's "overcoming trilogy" on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focusing on the issue of historical land dispossessions - the taking of African land under colonialism and apartheid - this book investigates the judgments South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past. Should, for instance, land seized under apartheid be returned today to its rightful owner? Gibson's research zeroes in on group identities and attachments as the thread that connects people to the past. Even when individuals have experienced no direct harm in the past, they care about the fairness of the treatment of their group to the extent that they identify with that group. Gibson's analysis shows that land issues in contemporary South Africa are salient, volatile, and enshrouded in symbols and, most important, that interracial differences in understandings of the past and preferences for the future are profound.

Author : Jeff Spinner-Halev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017513
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enduring Injustice written by Jeff Spinner-Halev and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today.

Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585455066
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Past written by John Torpey and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that 'reparations politics' has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of international affairs in coming years. In addition to broad theoretical and philosophical reflection, the book includes discussions of the politics of reparations in specific countries and regions, including the United States, France, Latin America, Japan, Canada, and Rwanda. The volume presents a nuanced, historically grounded, and critical perspective on the many campaigns for reparations currently afoot in a variety of contexts around the world. All readers working or teaching in the fields of transitional justice, the politics of memory, and social movements will find this book a rich and provocative contribution to this complex debate.

Author : James L. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139477641
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Historical Injustices written by James L. Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming Historical Injustices is the last entry in Gibson's 'overcoming trilogy' on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focusing on the issue of historical land dispossessions - the taking of African land under colonialism and apartheid - this book investigates the judgements South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past. Should, for instance, land seized under apartheid be returned today to its rightful owner? Gibson's research zeroes in on group identities and attachments as the thread that connects people to the past. Even when individuals have experienced no direct harm in the past, they care about the fairness of the treatment of their group to the extent that they identify with that group. Gibson's analysis shows that land issues in contemporary South Africa are salient, volatile, and enshrouded in symbols and, most important, that interracial differences in understandings of the past and preferences for the future are profound.

Author : Alasia Nuti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108419941
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Injustice and the Reproduction of History written by Alasia Nuti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

Author : Michael T. Martin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389819
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States written by Michael T. Martin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional resource, this comprehensive reader brings together primary and secondary documents related to efforts to redress historical wrongs against African Americans. These varied efforts are often grouped together under the rubric “reparations movement,” and they are united in their goal of “repairing” the injustices that have followed from the long history of slavery and Jim Crow. Yet, as this collection reveals, there is a broad range of opinions as to the form that repair might take. Some advocates of redress call for apologies; others for official acknowledgment of wrongdoing; and still others for more tangible reparations: monetary compensation, government investment in disenfranchised communities, the restitution of lost property and rights, and repatriation. Written by activists and scholars of law, political science, African American studies, philosophy, economics, and history, the twenty-six essays include both previously published articles and pieces written specifically for this volume. Essays theorize the historical and legal bases of claims for redress; examine the history, strengths, and limitations of the reparations movement; and explore its relation to human rights and social justice movements in the United States and abroad. Other essays evaluate the movement’s primary strategies: legislation, litigation, and mobilization. While all of the contributors support the campaign for redress in one way or another, some of them engage with arguments against reparations. Among the fifty-three primary documents included in the volume are federal, state, and municipal acts and resolutions; declarations and statements from organizations including the Black Panther Party and the NAACP; legal briefs and opinions; and findings and directives related to the provision of redress, from the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 to the mandate for the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States is a thorough assessment of the past, present, and future of the modern reparations movement. Contributors. Richard F. America, Sam Anderson, Martha Biondi, Boris L. Bittker, James Bolner, Roy L. Brooks, Michael K. Brown, Robert S. Browne, Martin Carnoy, Chiquita Collins, J. Angelo Corlett, Elliott Currie, William A. Darity, Jr., Adrienne Davis, Michael C. Dawson, Troy Duster, Dania Frank, Robert Fullinwider, Charles P. Henry, Gerald C. Horne, Robert Johnson, Jr., Robin D. G. Kelley, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., David Lyons, Michael T. Martin, Douglas S. Massey , Muntu Matsimela , C. J. Munford, Yusuf Nuruddin, Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Melvin L. Oliver, David B. Oppenheimer, Rovana Popoff, Thomas M. Shapiro, Marjorie M. Shultz, Alan Singer, David Wellman, David R. Williams, Eric K. Yamamoto, Marilyn Yaquinto

Author : Robert W. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107193230
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taming the Past written by Robert W. Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical catalogue of how lawyers use history - as authority, as evocation of lost golden ages, as a nightmare to escape and as progress towards enlightenment.

Author : James L. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521144407
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Overcoming Historical Injustices South Africa Edition written by James L. Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming Historical Land Injustices in South Africa is the last entry in Gibson's "overcoming trilogy" on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focusing on the issue of historical land dispossessions - the taking of African land under colonialism and apartheid - this book investigates the judgments South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past. Should, for instance, land seized under apartheid be returned today to its rightful owner? Gibson's research zeroes in on group identities and attachments as the thread that connects people to the past. Even when individuals have experienced no direct harm in the past, they care about the fairness of the treatment of their group to the extent that they identify with that group. Gibson's analysis shows that land issues in contemporary South Africa are salient, volatile, and enshrouded in symbols and, most important, that interracial differences in understandings of the past and preferences for the future are profound.

Author : Peter Malcontent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780684031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing the Past written by Peter Malcontent and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do societies at the national and international level try to overcome historical injustices? What remedies did they develop to do justice to victims of large scale atrocities? And, even more important, what have we learned from the implementation of these so-called instruments of transitional justice in practice? Lawyers, socials scientists, and historians have published shelves full of books and articles on how to confront the past through international criminal tribunals, truth commissions, financial compensation schemes, and other instruments of retributive/punitive and restorative justice. A serious problem continues to be that broad interdisciplinary accounts that include both categories of measures are still hardly available. In this volume, a group of international experts in the field endeavors to fill this gap, and more. By alternating historical overviews with critical assessments, this volume does not only offer an extensive introduction to the world of transitional justice, but also food for thought concerning the effectiveness of the remedies it offers to face the past successfully. (Series: Series on Transitional Justice, Vol. 21) Subject: Human Rights Law, Criminal Justice]