This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture

Reparations as Restorative Justice Part 1

September 13, 2020 Black and African Diaspora Forum United (BADFU) Season 1 Episode 2
This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture
Reparations as Restorative Justice Part 1
Show Notes

In this episode, Guy Emerson Mount, Caine Jordan, and David Johnson discuss the idea of reparations and the Reparations Movement in the global African Diaspora with Hettie V. Williams. These scholars reframe the notion of justice “turning the idea on its head” and declare that monetary compensation for the injury of slavery, and racism more generally, can only be understood as a restorative on-going process or praxis. In other words, there is no amount of monetary compensation that can repair the harm that has been done to Black and African American communities worldwide. This is a two-part series.