Six on Reparations: Cracked Foundations: The Case for Reparations; How to Make Amends: A Lesson; Reparations mark new front for U.S. colleges tied to slavery; Reparations: A Conversation Worth Having

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 Six on Reparations: Cracked Foundations: The Case for Reparations; How to Make Amends: A Lesson; Reparations mark new front for U.S. colleges tied to slavery; Reparations: A Conversation Worth Having



How to Make Amends: A Lesson on Reparations

"As high school teachers of history and government, we teach about reparations at multiple points across the curriculum. Students learn about the reparations imposed upon Germany by the Treaty of Versailles following World War I; students learn about the failure of the U.S. government to enact reparations — 40 acres and a mule — for newly emancipated people during Reconstruction; students learn about the 1988 Civil Liberties Act through which Congress paid 82,000 Japanese American survivors of the U.S. government’s wartime incarceration program $20,000 each, totaling more than $1.6 billion. But when we have asked our students to grapple with the possibility of the United States paying reparations today — for slavery and its 20th- and 21st-century legacies of white supremacist violence, disenfranchisement, and exploitation — we find students struggle to unleash their critical imagination."

How to Make Amends: A Lesson on Reparations - Zinn Education Project






Reparations mark new front for U.S. colleges tied to slavery

"University of Buffalo senior Jeffrey Clinton said he thinks campuses should acknowledge historical ties to slavery but that the federal government should take the lead on an issue that reaches well beyond higher education.

“It doesn’t have to be trillions of dollars ... but at least address the inequities and attack the racial wealth gap between African Americans and white Americans and really everybody else, because this is an American-made institution. We didn’t immigrate here,” said Clinton, a descendant of slaves who lives in Bay Shore, N.Y.

A majority of Georgetown undergraduates voted in April for a nonbinding referendum to pay a $27.20-per-semester “Reconciliation Contribution” toward projects in underprivileged communities that are home to some descendants of 272 slaves who were sold in 1838 to help pay off the school’s debts.

Georgetown President John DeGioia responded in October with plans instead for a university-led initiative, with the goal of raising about $400,000 from donors, rather than students, to support projects like health clinics and schools in those same communities."

Reparations mark new front for U.S. colleges tied to slavery





TEACHING ACTIVITIES (FREE)

How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century


Teaching Activity. By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Rethinking Schools.

The mixer role play is based on Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law, which shows in exacting detail how government policies segregated every major city in the United States with dire consequences for African Americans.




Reparations: A Conversation Worth Having

"MEXICO CITY — Three weeks ago and 500 years after the arrival of Hernán Cortés in Veracruz, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico sent a letter to the king of Spain. In it, he demanded an apology for the abuses inflicted on the indigenous peoples of Mexico by Spain, in view of what the Spaniards now consider “human rights violations.”

And last week the prime minister of Belgium apologized in Parliament for the kidnapping, deportation and forced adoption of thousands of children born to mixed-race couples in its former African colonies.

National apologies for misdeeds, crimes and odious behavior are not new. The West German government of Konrad Adenauer paid billions in reparations to the state of Israel and Jewish people for Nazi crimes. Former President Jacques Chirac of France apologized for deporting thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps.

The reparations debate in the United States continues. A bill known as H.R. 40 was introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative John Conyers every year from 1989 until his resignation in 2017. It called for a formal study of the impact of slavery on African-Americans living today and the development of a proposal for reparations, among other things. The bill was reintroduced this year by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee. Most recently, several contenders for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, most notably Elizabeth Warren, have expressed some level of support for reparations for the descendants of enslaved men and women."




Larry Ferlazzo: Here are resources on Reparations I’ve previously shared:

You may have already heard about, or read, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article in The Atlantic titled “The Case for Reparations.”

You might also find The New Republic’s piece, Get Ready for a National Debate About Slavery Reparations, useful.




How To Tell Who Hasn’t Read The New ‘Atlantic’ Cover Story, from NPR.

Slavery reparations are workable and affordable is from Vox.

Six times victims have received reparations — including four in the US is from Vox.

Why white folks shouldn’t fear reparations is from The Week.

Are Reparations Due to African-Americans? is from The New York Times.

Here are newer resources:

The Debate over Reparations is a lesson plan from Morningside Center.

The Case for Reparations is by David Brooks.People are again talking about slavery reparations. But it’s a complex and thorny issue is from CNN.




Supporters of American slavery reparations in Washington in 2002.jpg
A white man sells black slaves at a sale in Charleston, South Carolina. At one point 35-40% of slaves entered the US through the city.jpg
The House of Slaves on Senegal’s Goree Island is a UNESCO World Heritage site that features the Door of No Return.jpg
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee speaks at a hearing about reparations before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties today.jpg
REPARATIONS MEANS FULL REPAIR,FOR 400 YEARS OF TERROR, AND OTHER EGREGIOUS CRIMES.png
Singer NY Complicity with Slavery Reparations.pdf
Under Jim Crow, the Princes were not free to dine wherever and however they wanted, or to use the front door of white establishments, but they never told their own customers where to sit or what door to use..jpg
In 1952, America was still operating as a ‘Jim Crow nation’ with the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine in force.jpg
A pair of students walk past a historic mural that includes slaves and a dead American Indian at George Washington High School in San Francisco on April 3..jpg
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee speaks at a hearing about reparations before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties today.jpg
After the Sale, Slaves Going south from Richmond, 1853.jpg
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