Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow, Its Assumptions and Implications
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2017
Editor(s)
Naomi Zack
ISBN
9780190638085
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
Although slavery was abolished in 1865, racial subordination was maintained under Jim Crow, and those wrongs have caused lasting harms. Governments, institutions, and individuals (including corporations) are morally accountable today if they supported or profited from slavery or Jim Crow. Reparations would include cash payments, but moral wrongs are not fully repaired by material compensation. Slavery and Jim Crow were total systems predicated on a persisting ideology of white supremacy. Reparations should enable those wronged to rebuild their lives, free of oppressive racism.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow, Its Assumptions and Implications
,
in
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race
505
(Naomi Zack ed.,
2017).
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.31
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