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A carregar... Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolitionpor Katherine Franke
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"A compelling case for reparations based on powerful, first person accounts detailing both the horrors of slavery and past promises made to its survivors. Katherine Franke makes a powerful case for reparations for Black Americans by amplifying the stories of formerly enslaved people and calling for repair of the damage caused by the legacy of American slavery. Repair invites readers to explore the historical context for reparations, offering a detailed account of the circumstances that surrounded the emancipation of enslaved Black people in two unique contexts, the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Davis Bend, Mississippi, Jefferson Davis's former plantation. Through these two critical historical examples, Franke unpacks intergenerational, systemic racism and white privilege at the heart of American society and argues that reparations for slavery are necessary, overdue and possible."--Publisher's website. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The struggle I had with this book ultimately was the struggle I have with a lot of writing about reparations in the form of land distribution, which is the question of whose land is being distributed, and what we have learned from the state distributing land and to whom. Though Franke does discuss, very briefly, the Dawes Act and the ways that land distribution has been used to undermine indigenous sovereignty, she does not spend any time thinking about the fact that it is still land belonging to indigenous people that would be distributed--which I get, because it's hugely complicated and messy. I genuinely think analyzing the case of freedmen who had been enslaved by nations of the five southeastern tribes--some of whom were promised land in the 1866 treaty, which ended enslavement in those nations--could have really built up her analysis. What happens when the land being distributed doesn't belong, in the eyes of the state, to white men? And how can we learn from the Dawes Act that the distribution of private property on the part of the state is always a move to make those involved conform to specific modes of citizenship, which are heavily gendered as well as raced? (She doesn't seem to touch on this even with the idea that single women could not own land under the Sherman distribution rules, which, given that she's written a book about marriage, seems odd to me.)
I do find her discussions of collective ownership in the present and how to get that land back into Black communities very compelling--she doesn't fully address the problem of capitalism and its relationship to property, but she seems to hint at it, and it gets its fullest address here. Overall I do think this book is a solid conversation starter engaged with other pieces talking about reparations, and many of my complaints are complaints I have about that conversation more broadly. I can definitely imagine incorporating this book into a syllabus, and also could be really useful for book clubs! ( )