Reparations – a long contested topic that has recently gotten a resurgence in our public discourse as our nation grapples with the ongoing legacy of white supremacy and systemic racism.
More scholars and activists are making the case for the necessity of reparations, not just for reconciliation from the evils of American slavery and Jim Crow that followed soon after, but to finally have a whole nation by ending the equity gap that specifically plagues the African American community. But what is the legacy behind this argument? Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Duke University Professor William “Sandy” Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen, co-authors of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century published by The University of North Carolina Press. The book is the winner of the 2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) Book Prize.
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