Reparations and Anti-Black Racism A Criminological Exploration of the Harms of Slavery and Racialized Injustice
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Angus Nurse is Head of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Nottingham Trent University.The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer. Police shootings and incarceration inequalities in the US and UK are just two examples of the legacy of slavery today.
This book offers a criminological exploration of the case for slavery and anti-Black racism reparations in the context of the enduring harms and differential treatment of Black citizens. Through critical analysis of legal arguments and reviewing recent court actions, it refutes the policy perspectives that argue against reparations.
Highlighting the human rights abuses inherent to and arising from slavery and ongoing racism, this book calls for governments to take responsibility for the impact of ongoing racialized injustice.
1. Black Lives Matter: The Legacy of Slavery
2. Slavery and Reparations: A Criminological View
3. Reparations Litigation: An Overview
4. Victims of Slavery and Reparations: Who Suffers?
5. A Comparative Analysis of Reparations
6. Unjust Enrichment and the Socio-Legal Case for Reparations
7. The ‘Value’ of Reparations?
8. The Nature of Reparations
9. Reparations in the 21st Century: Contemporary Debates and Issues on Reparations
Draws on contemporary events including Black Lives Matter protests and police shootings to expose the injustices Black communities continue to suffer as a result of the legacy of slavery;
Overturns the common view that slavery was ‘legal at the time of practice’ to explain the case for slavery reparations;
This is the first book to include a criminological exploration of the legacy of slavery.