For our December meeting we will discuss the topic of reparations for slavery and the legacy of slavery. We will focus on an article, a video, and a new history book. 

The article is the much-cited Atlantic article by Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Case for Reparations which largely focuses on the debate about reparations for African Amercians: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/.

The book is Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History by historian Ana Lucia Araujo: http://www.analuciaaraujo.org. Published in November 2017, this is the first book to offer a transnational narrative history of the financial, material, and symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. It leads to the present.

In the discussion of this event are links to a couple of videos as well as interviews, blog posts and other resources that inform the topic. One video in particular may be helpful to the discussion: As an accompaniment to this article, please also watch the video: What Would Reparations for African-Americans Actually Look Like in a Fair Economy? by organizer Ed Whitfield: http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/video-what-would-reparations-for-african-americans-actually-look-like-in-a-fair-economy-20151110.

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