Reparations for ‘America’s Holocaust’: Activism                 for Global Justice

Martin, Michael T.; Yaquinto, Marilyn

doi:10.1177/0306396804043863

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“…26 The US GWOT 'assert[s] the presumptions and practices of empire and herald[s] the prospect of the forcible re-mapping of the planet', making the consideration of US reparations for regions directly impacted by these policies more relevant than ever. 27 With all of this said, reparations, '[c]onceptually as well as in practice . .…”

Section: Perspectives On Reparations Past and Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia?

Mueller¹

2023

Race & Class

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For over twenty years the United States government has engaged in what it calls a global ‘war on terror’ (GWOT). This war spans continents and while US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq receive modest attention, the secretive US war in Somalia remains under-discussed. This article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of what the US has done in Somalia since 2001, considering the political, economic and ideological elements of these acts. Data on the US’s war on the Somali people is placed in dialogue with ongoing theorising on the merits of reparations in the world system.

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Section: Perspectives On Reparations Past and Presentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia?

Mueller¹

2023

Race & Class

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“…Nessa nova economia moral, os escravizados são entendidos como vítimas de um intenso sofrimento e os museus da escravidão tornam-se parte do conjunto de atos de reparação. Tais mudanças ocorrem com o fi m da Guerra Fria, que desloca as tensões para o eixo Norte-Sul e para o referencial ético dos pedidos de desculpa e de reparação (Chivallon, 2012;Martin;Yaquinto, 2004).…”

Section: A Musealização Da Escravidãounclassified

Conflitos, verdades e política no Museu da Escravidão e da Liberdade no Rio de Janeiro

Vassallo

Cáceres

2019

Horiz. antropol.

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Resumo Esse artigo se propõe a analisar a tentativa de implementação do Museu da Escravidão e da Liberdade (MEL), marcada por sucessivas dificuldades e cujo intuito é trazer a “verdade” sobre a escravidão. Acreditamos que o MEL se encontre no cerne de intensas disputas políticas mais amplas, daí as adversidades que encontra. Por um lado, ele expressa as dificuldades do movimento negro em trazer a público as memórias da escravidão. Por outro, ele revela os embates entre projetos voltados para ações afirmativas, reparação e reconhecimento no novo contexto político conservador que ocorre tanto na administração pública federal quanto na municipal. Para tanto, nos inspiramos na noção de “rituais abortivos”, de Trouillot, para quem as evocações memorialísticas e os pedidos públicos contemporâneos de desculpas por crimes cometidos no passado esvaziam-se do seu potencial político e não possuem um caráter verdadeiramente transformador.

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“…For example, when considering how the textbooks depicted acts of violence that occurred during the Middle Passage and Slavery, one finds that slavery was a system that involved individual actors that possessed a desire to maintain control over the enslaved Africans immediately under their control. These narratives, however, do not illustrate the systematic, institutional basis of this violence, nor do they allude to the long-term effects of such violence on maintaining a system that provided the socioeconomic and political infrastructure of the United States (Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995) and the financial wealth and stability of some families and corporations (e.g., Fleet Bank, Aetna Insurance Company) that continue to reap social and economic benefits of these past events (Biondi, 2003;Martin & Yaquinto, 2004). 6 When considering how acts of violence targeting African Americans were characterized during Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights era, a similar pattern existed.…”

Section: Constructions Of Resistance By African Americans Against Racial Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…6. In recent years, scholars have uncovered ties between the system of slavery and existing U.S. companies that "knowingly benefited" from this institution (e.g., see Biondi, 2003;Martin & Yaquinto, 2004).…”

Section: Constructions Of Resistance By African Americans Against Racial Violencementioning

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Strange Fruit Indeed: Interrogating Contemporary Textbook Representations of Racial Violence toward African Americans

Brown

2010

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Background/Context Recent racial incidents on college and high school campuses throughout the United States have catalyzed a growing conversation around issues of race and racism. These conversations exist alongside ongoing concerns about the lack of attention given to race and racism in the official school curriculum. Given that the field of education is generally located as a space to interrogate why these difficult issues of race in schools and society still persist, this study illustrates how contemporary official school knowledge addresses historical and contemporary issues of race and racism. To do this, we examine how historic acts of racial violence directed toward African Americans are rendered in K–12 school textbooks. Using the theoretical lenses of critical race theory and cultural memory, we explicate how historic acts of racial violence toward African Americans receives minimal and/or distorted attention in most K–12 texts. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study We examined the knowledge constructed about racial violence and African Americans in the United States. Using the theoretical lenses of critical race theory and cultural memory, we show how the topic of historic acts of racial violence toward African Americans receives minimal and/or distorted attention in most K–12 texts. The purpose of this study is to illustrate that although accounts of racial violence that historically have been excluded from textbooks are now being included, this inclusion matters little if it is presented in a manner that disavows material implications of racial violence on sustained White privilege and entrenched African American inequities. Research Design The findings from this study come from a textbook analysis of 19 recent U.S. history social studies textbooks adopted by the state of Texas. Drawing from the tradition of recent critical textbook studies, this study used a literary analysis methodology. Findings/Results In this study, we found that although narratives of racial violence were present throughout the texts, they often rendered acts of violence as the immorality of single actors or “bad men doing bad things.” Additionally, these presentations portray violence as disconnected from the institutional and structural ties that supported and benefited from such acts. Conclusions/Recommendations The findings from this study illustrate the limited historical and sociocultural knowledge about race and racism provided to teachers and students through K–12 social studies textbooks. These findings have direct implications for how teachers and students conceptualize and grapple with real issues of race and racism in schools and society. We suggest that the knowledge contained in school texts must go beyond simply representing acts of racism, situating such acts of racism within the discursive and material realities that have shaped the lives of African Americans in the United States.

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Reparations for ‘America’s Holocaust’: Activism for Global Justice

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia?

Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia?

Conflitos, verdades e política no Museu da Escravidão e da Liberdade no Rio de Janeiro

Strange Fruit Indeed: Interrogating Contemporary Textbook Representations of Racial Violence toward African Americans

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