Achieving democratic equality: Forgiveness, reconciliation, and reparations

Journal of Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-113

  McGary, Howard ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Apology; Compensation; Democracy; Equality; Forgiveness; Reconciliation; Rectification; Reparations

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650343912     PISSN: 13824554     EISSN: 15728609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022878913463     Document Type: Article

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1. Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth Century America (New York: Penguin Putnam, 1999), pp. 11-14.
2. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (New York: A Laurel Book, 1985).
3. Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, p. 15.
4. Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, p. 141.
5. See, for example, Frederick Douglass, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," in Philip S. Foner (ed.), The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 2 (New York: International Publishers, 1950-1975), pp. 181-204.
6. Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait (New York: Mass Market Paperback/ NAL, 2002).
7. Howard Brotz (ed.), African American Social and Political Thought From 1850-1915 (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1991).
8. See K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 30-74
9. and Richard Wasserstrom, "On Racism and Sexism," in R. Wasserstrom (ed.), Philosophy and Social Issues (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1980), pp. 11-50.
10. Lucius Outlaw, On Race and Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1996)
11. Lucius Outlaw, On Race and Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1996) and Iris Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).
12. Howard McGary and Bill Lawson, Between Slavery and Freedom: Philosophy and American Slavery (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), Chapter 6.
13. Judith Green, Deep Democracy (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999), pp. 149-152.
14. Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (New York: Scribner's, 1992).
15. Howard McGary, Race and Social Justice (London: Blackwell Publishers, 1999), Chapter 1.
16. See, for example, Outlaw, On Race and Philosophy.
17. Roy L. Brooks (ed.), When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (New York: New York University Press, 1999).
18. Lani Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy (New York: The Free Press, 1994).
19. See The Source Magazine, October 1997.
20. Several lawyers have been assembled by Professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard University to prepare reparations litigation for African Americans. There have also been a number of recent articles published in law journals supporting the idea of reparations for African Americans, e.g., Robert Westley, "Many Billions Gone: Is It Time to Reconsider the Case for Black Reparations?," Boston College Law Review 40 (1998), pp. 429-476.
21. Representative Tony Hall (D-Ohio) has introduced legislation calling for an official apology for slavery and representative John Conyers (D-Michigan) has consistently introduced legislation calling for reparations to African Americans.
22. John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government, ed. Thomas P. Peardon (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968), pp. 7-9.
23. David Horowitz, Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery (New York: Encounter Books, 2001).
24. McGary, Race and Social Justice.
25. Tali Mendleberg, The Race Card (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
26. Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1990), Chapters 3 and 4.
27. Timothy George Lobert Smith, Jr., A Mighty Long Journey: Reflections on Racial Reconciliation (New York: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2000).
28. Jeffrey Murphy and Jean Hampton, Forgiveness and Mercy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
29. See, e.g., "Words, Symbols and Actions: Reconciliation Report Card 2002," A Report from the Reconciliation Australia Organization.
30. Uma Narayan, "Forgiveness, Moral Reassessment, and Reconciliation," in Thomas Magnell (ed.), Explorations of Value (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 169-178.
31. Narayan, "Forgiveness, Moral Reassessment, and Reconciliation," p. 177.
32. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority.
33. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, p. 98.
34. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, pp. 55-58.
35. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, Chapter 3.
36. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, p. 58.
37. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, p. 104.
38. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, pp. 27-28 and 75-76.
39. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, pp. 107-109.
40. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, p. 14.
41. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, p. 15.
42. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, p. 121.
43. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, p. 140.
44. Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority, p. 121.
45. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th edition (St. Paul: West Group, 1999), p. 1422.
46. Randall Robinson, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks (New York: Dutton, 2000).
47. See Irving Thalberg, "Visceral Racism," The Monist 56 (1972), pp. 43-63.