TY - BOOK ID - 77871753 TI - Long Overdue PY - 2007 SN - 0814790801 0814737242 9780814737248 9780814790809 0814736920 9780814736920 9780814737415 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Slavery KW - Racism KW - Reparations for historical injustices KW - Civil rights movements KW - African Americans KW - Redress for historical injustices KW - Reparation for historical injustices KW - Reparations KW - Reparations for past injustices KW - Restitution for historical injustices KW - Indemnity KW - Social justice KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Civil rights KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - United States KW - Race relations. KW - Politics and government KW - Race question KW - Black people KW - Long. KW - Overdue. KW - arguments. KW - history. KW - players. KW - political. KW - provides. KW - reparations. KW - struggle. KW - toward. KW - undercurrents. KW - understanding. KW - with. KW - work. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77871753 AB - Ever since the unfulfilled promise of "forty acres and a mule," America has consistently failed to confront the issue of racial injustice. Exploring why America has failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery, Long Overdue provides a history of the racial reparations movement and shows why it is an idea whose time has come. Martin Luther King, Jr., remarked in his "I Have a Dream" speech that America has given Black citizens a "bad check" marked "insufficient funds." Yet apart from a few Black nationalists, the call for reparations has been peripheral to Black policy demands ER -