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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| On Redress for Racial Injustice | |
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| Racial Inequality and White Privilege | |
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| Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy | |
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| Race Preferences and Race Privileges | |
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| A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality | |
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| Law, Citizenship, and the State | |
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| The Case for Reparations | |
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| Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations | |
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| The Constitutionality of Black Reparations | |
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| The Theory of Restitution: The African American Case | |
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| Reparations to African Americana? | |
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| Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress | |
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| "A Day of Reckoning": Dreams of Reparations | |
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| Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith | |
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| The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America | |
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| The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism: The Economics of Reparations | |
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| The Rise of the Reparations Movement | |
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| Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention | |
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| Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery: Documenting the Case for Reparations | |
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| Railroads, Race, and Reparations | |
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| Reparations: A Viable Strategy to Address the Enigma of African American Health | |
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| Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty | |
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| Mobilizing Strategies | |
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| The Politics of Racial Reparations | |
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| The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans | |
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| The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations | |
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| Repatriation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow | |
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| What's Next? Japanese American Redress and African American Reparations | |
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| The Reparations Movement: An Assessment of Recent and Current Activism | |
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| Reparations: Strategic Considerations for Black Americans | |
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| Tulsa Reparations: The Survivors' Story | |
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| Race for Power: The Global Balance of Power and Reparations | |
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| Documents | |
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| Federal Acts and Resolutions | |
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| The Second Confiscation Act (1862) | |
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| Special Field Orders, No. 15 (1865) | |
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| Freedmen's Bureau Act (1865) | |
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| Southern Homestead Act (1866) | |
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| House Resolution 29 (1867) | |
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| Civil Liberties Act (1988) | |
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| House Resolution 356 (2000) | |
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| House Resolution 40 (2005) | |
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| Senate Resolution 39 (2005) | |
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| Senate Resolution 44 (2005) | |
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| State Legislation | |
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| Michigan House Bill No. 5562 (2000) | |
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| California Senate Bill No. 2199 (2000) | |
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| California Senate Joint Resolution No. 1 (2001) | |
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| New Jersey African-American Reconciliation Study Commission Act (2003) | |
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| Texas House Joint Resolution 25 (2003) | |
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| Maryland House Joint Resolution 4 (2004) | |
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| Municipal Resolutions | |
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| City of Detroit (1989) | |
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| City of Chicago (2000) | |
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| City of San Francisco (2001) | |
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| City of New York Resolution 41 (2002) | |
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| City of New York Resolution 219 (2002) | |
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| District of Columbia (2003) | |
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| City of New York Resolution 57 (2004) | |
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| City of New York Resolution 195 (2004) | |
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| City of Philadelphia (2004) | |
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| Advocacy and Activism | |
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| United Negro Improvement Association (1920): "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World" | |
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| Civil Rights Congress (1951): "We Charge Genocide" | |
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| Malcolm X (1964): Appeal to African Heads of State | |
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| Black Panther Party for Self Defense (1967): What We Want; What We Believe | |
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| Republic of New Africa (1968): Declaration of Independence | |
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| Black Panther Party (1969): Reparations for Vietnam | |
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| National Black Economic Development Conference (1969): The Black Manifesto | |
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| National Black Political Agenda (1972): The Gary Declaration | |
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| Black Panther Party (1973): Petition to the United Nations | |
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| Nation of Islam (1990): A Case for Reparations | |
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| Black Radical Congress (1999): The Freedom Agenda | |
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| Reparations Support Committee (1999/2000): "To the President of the United States of America" | |
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| Randall Robinson, TransAfrica Forum (2000): Restatement of the Black Manifesto | |
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| National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (2000): The Reparations Campaign | |
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| The NDABA Movement (2004): National Reparations Petition | |
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| NAACP (2005): NAACP Supports Reintroduction of Reparations Study Legislation | |
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| American Bar Association Recommendation (2006) | |
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| Episcopal Church (2006): Call for the Episcopal Church to Study Responsibility for Reparations | |
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| Case Studies of Redress | |
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| The White House (1997): Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee | |
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| Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (2000) | |
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| Mandate for the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2004) | |
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| Rosewood Victims v. State of Florida (2004): Special Master's Final Report | |
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| Florida Statute 1004.60 (2004) | |
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| Florida Statute 1009.55 (2004) | |
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| Lawsuits | |
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| Timothy Pigford, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Dan Glickman, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, Defendant (1998): Opinion | |
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| Civil Actions Nos. 97-1978, 98-1693 (1999): Opinion | |
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| In re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation (2004): Opinion | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgment of Copyrights | |
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| Index | |