"In "The Price of Racial Reconciliation"," " Ronald Walters offers
an abundance of riches. This book provides an extraordinarily
comprehensive and persuasive set of arguments for reparations, and
will be the lens through which meaningful opportunities for
reconciliation are viewed in the future. If this book does not lead
to the success of the reparations movement, nothing will."--Charles
J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
""The Price of Racial Reconciliation" is a seminal study of
comparative histories and race(ism) in the formation of state
structures that prefigure(d) socioeconomic positions of Black
peoples in South Africa and the United States. The scholarship is
meticulous in brilliantly constructed analysis of the politics of
memory, reparations as an immutable principle of justice,
imperative for nonracial(ist) democracy, and a regime of racial
reconciliation."--James Turner, Professor of African and African
American Studies and Founder, Africana Studies and Research Center,
Cornell University "A fascinating and pathbreaking analysis of the
attempt at racial reconciliation in South Africa which asks if that
model is relevant to the contemporary American racial dilemma. An
engaging multidisciplinary approach relevant to philosophy,
sociology, history, and political science."--William Strickland,
Associate Professor of Political Science, W.E.B. Du Bois Department
of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst The
issue of reparations in America provokes a lot of interest, but the
public debate usually occurs at the level of historical accounting:
"Who owes what for slavery?" This book attempts to get past that
question to address racial restitution within the framework of
larger societal interests. For example, the answer to the "why
reparations?" question is more than the moral of payment for an
injustice done in the past. Ronald Walters suggests that, insofar
as the impact of slavery is still very much with us today and has
been reinforced by forms of postslavery oppression, the objective
of racial harmony will be disrupted unless it is recognized with
the solemnity and amelioration it deserves. The author concludes
that the grand narrative of black oppression in the United
States--which contains the past and present summary of the black
experience--prevents racial reconciliation as long as some
substantial form of racial restitution is not seriously considered.
This is "the price" of reconciliation. The method for achieving
this finding is grounded in comparative politics, where the
analyses of institutions and political behaviors are standard
approaches. The author presents the conceptual difficulties
involved in the project of racial reconciliation by comparing South
African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for reparations in
the United States.
Ronald Walters is Distinguished Leadership Scholar and Director,
African American Leadership Program and Professor of Government and
Politics, University of Maryland.
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