Heirs of Oppression
- Authors
- Corlett, J. Angelo
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Tags
- reparations for historical injustices - united states , united states , reparations for historical injustices , social science , native american , political , reparations , indians of north america , discrimination & race relations , history , indians of north america - reparations , race discrimination , african americans - reparations , race discrimination - united states - history , philosophy , general , african americans
- ISBN
- 9781442208148
- Date
- 2010-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.67 MB
- Lang
- en
Packing his case with moral argument and relevant facts, Angelo Corlett offers the most comprehensive defense to date in favor of reparations for African Americans and American Indians. As Corlett see it, the heirs of oppression are both the descendants of the oppressors and the descendants of their victims. Corlett delves deeply into the philosophically related issues of collective responsibility, forgiveness and apology, and reparations as a human right in ways that no other book or article to date has done. He recommends specific policies and tests the basic arguments of this book with a lengthy chapter considering several objections to the line of reasoning grounding the project.