Author: Alfred L. Brophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019530408X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher Description
Reparations
Author: Alfred L. Brophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019530408X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019530408X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
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Retribution's Price
Author: William White
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1615661352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This is just a story of fiction and could never happen... Or could it? Terrorists have America in their cross hairs. NSA agent Sam Steele must put the puzzle pieces together, acting outside the law and behind his superior's back to counter the international conspiracy. As crises erupt across the United States and things heat up on volcanic island La Palma, Sam can only turn to one mana "Jessie Martin. These two men will play a global game of espionage across oceans and continents. Ra'id, the Iran-Iraq war veteran, is filled with a righteous anger toward the great Satan, America. Bending his terrifying intellect toward a diabolical purpose, Ra'id uses his international influence to manipulate events across the world in order to bleed off America's military strength until his fatal finale on January 17a "the day of the State of Union address. Prioritizing diplomacy over security, the novice president's decisions force Jessie and Sam to illegally pursue intelligence that will substantiate an assault on Ra'id's organization. It's a race to the finish line as the State of the Union address draws nearer. If Ra'id and his terrorist minions succeed, the winds of change will sweep across the globe, and the political and economic poles of the world will shift. The stakes are high and the personal sacrifices even higher as new author William White explores "Retribution's Price.""
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1615661352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This is just a story of fiction and could never happen... Or could it? Terrorists have America in their cross hairs. NSA agent Sam Steele must put the puzzle pieces together, acting outside the law and behind his superior's back to counter the international conspiracy. As crises erupt across the United States and things heat up on volcanic island La Palma, Sam can only turn to one mana "Jessie Martin. These two men will play a global game of espionage across oceans and continents. Ra'id, the Iran-Iraq war veteran, is filled with a righteous anger toward the great Satan, America. Bending his terrifying intellect toward a diabolical purpose, Ra'id uses his international influence to manipulate events across the world in order to bleed off America's military strength until his fatal finale on January 17a "the day of the State of Union address. Prioritizing diplomacy over security, the novice president's decisions force Jessie and Sam to illegally pursue intelligence that will substantiate an assault on Ra'id's organization. It's a race to the finish line as the State of the Union address draws nearer. If Ra'id and his terrorist minions succeed, the winds of change will sweep across the globe, and the political and economic poles of the world will shift. The stakes are high and the personal sacrifices even higher as new author William White explores "Retribution's Price.""
Retribution Rails
Author: Erin Bowman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544918886
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544918886
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.
From Here to Equality, Second Edition
Author: William A. Darity Jr.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469671212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. Economic data indicates that for every dollar the average white household holds in wealth the average black household possesses a mere ten cents. This compelling and sharply argued book addresses economic injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War and offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery. This new edition features a new foreword addressing the latest developments on the local, state, and federal level and considering current prospects for a comprehensive reparations program.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469671212
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. But neither Reconstruction nor the New Deal nor the civil rights struggle led to an economically just and fair nation. Today, systematic inequality persists in the form of housing discrimination, unequal education, police brutality, mass incarceration, employment discrimination, and massive wealth and opportunity gaps. Economic data indicates that for every dollar the average white household holds in wealth the average black household possesses a mere ten cents. This compelling and sharply argued book addresses economic injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. Using innovative methods that link monetary values to historical wrongs, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War and offer a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery. This new edition features a new foreword addressing the latest developments on the local, state, and federal level and considering current prospects for a comprehensive reparations program.
Know Your Price
Author: Andre M. Perry
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815737289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. “That's just how they are” or “there's really no excuse”: we've all heard those not so subtle digs. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. We haven't known how much the country will gain by properly valuing homes and businesses, family structures, voters, and school districts in Black neighborhoods. And we need to know. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes readers on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued. Perry begins in his hometown of Wilkinsburg, a small city east of Pittsburgh that, unlike its much larger neighbor, is struggling and failing to attract new jobs and industry. Bringing his own personal story of growing up in Black-majority Wilkinsburg, Perry also spotlights five others where he has deep connections: Detroit, Birmingham, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. He provides an intimate look at the assets that should be of greater value to residents—and that can be if they demand it. Perry provides a new means of determining the value of Black communities. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed perspectives of the past and present, it gives fresh insights on the historical effects of racism and provides a new value paradigm to limit them in the future. Know Your Price demonstrates the worth of Black people's intrinsic personal strengths, real property, and traditional institutions. These assets are a means of empowerment and, as Perry argues in this provocative and very personal book, are what we need to know and understand to build Black prosperity.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815737289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects. An enduring white supremacist myth claims brutal conditions in Black communities are mainly the result of Black people's collective choices and moral failings. “That's just how they are” or “there's really no excuse”: we've all heard those not so subtle digs. But there is nothing wrong with Black people that ending racism can't solve. We haven't known how much the country will gain by properly valuing homes and businesses, family structures, voters, and school districts in Black neighborhoods. And we need to know. Noted educator, journalist, and scholar Andre Perry takes readers on a tour of six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued. Perry begins in his hometown of Wilkinsburg, a small city east of Pittsburgh that, unlike its much larger neighbor, is struggling and failing to attract new jobs and industry. Bringing his own personal story of growing up in Black-majority Wilkinsburg, Perry also spotlights five others where he has deep connections: Detroit, Birmingham, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. He provides an intimate look at the assets that should be of greater value to residents—and that can be if they demand it. Perry provides a new means of determining the value of Black communities. Rejecting policies shaped by flawed perspectives of the past and present, it gives fresh insights on the historical effects of racism and provides a new value paradigm to limit them in the future. Know Your Price demonstrates the worth of Black people's intrinsic personal strengths, real property, and traditional institutions. These assets are a means of empowerment and, as Perry argues in this provocative and very personal book, are what we need to know and understand to build Black prosperity.
The Price of Retribution
Author: Sara Craven
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037352885X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
To Tarn Desmond family is everything. So when powerful tycoon Caspar Brandon all but destroys her sweet sister, Tarn is determined to make this notorious playboy pay. Caz is intrigued by the pure beauty of the new girl in his office--no one has ever said no to him before, and if anything that's just doubled his ruthless desire for her As Tarn sinks deeper into her deception, her resolve falters under Caz's sensual onslaught. She hadn't banked on revenge costing her the ultimate price: her heart...and her body
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037352885X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
To Tarn Desmond family is everything. So when powerful tycoon Caspar Brandon all but destroys her sweet sister, Tarn is determined to make this notorious playboy pay. Caz is intrigued by the pure beauty of the new girl in his office--no one has ever said no to him before, and if anything that's just doubled his ruthless desire for her As Tarn sinks deeper into her deception, her resolve falters under Caz's sensual onslaught. She hadn't banked on revenge costing her the ultimate price: her heart...and her body
Atonement and Forgiveness
Author: Roy L. Brooks
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520343409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. Atonement and Forgiveness shifts the focus of the issue from the backward-looking question of compensation for victims to a more forward-looking racial reconciliation. Offering a comprehensive discussion of the history of the black redress movement, this book puts forward a powerful new plan for repairing the damaged relationship between the federal government and black Americans in the aftermath of 240 years of slavery and another 100 years of government-sanctioned racial segregation. Key to Brooks's vision is the government's clear signal that it understands the magnitude of the atrocity it committed against an innocent people, that it takes full responsibility, and that it publicly requests forgiveness—in other words, that it apologizes. The government must make that apology believable, Brooks explains, by a tangible act that turns the rhetoric of apology into a meaningful, material reality, that is, by reparation. Apology and reparation together constitute atonement. Atonement, in turn, imposes a reciprocal civic obligation on black Americans to forgive, which allows black Americans to start relinquishing racial resentment and to begin trusting the government's commitment to racial equality. Brooks's bold proposal situates the argument for reparations within a larger, international framework—namely, a post-Holocaust vision of government responsibility for genocide, slavery, apartheid, and similar acts of injustice. Atonement and Forgiveness makes a passionate, convincing case that only with this spirit of heightened morality, identity, egalitarianism, and restorative justice can genuine racial reconciliation take place in America.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520343409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. Atonement and Forgiveness shifts the focus of the issue from the backward-looking question of compensation for victims to a more forward-looking racial reconciliation. Offering a comprehensive discussion of the history of the black redress movement, this book puts forward a powerful new plan for repairing the damaged relationship between the federal government and black Americans in the aftermath of 240 years of slavery and another 100 years of government-sanctioned racial segregation. Key to Brooks's vision is the government's clear signal that it understands the magnitude of the atrocity it committed against an innocent people, that it takes full responsibility, and that it publicly requests forgiveness—in other words, that it apologizes. The government must make that apology believable, Brooks explains, by a tangible act that turns the rhetoric of apology into a meaningful, material reality, that is, by reparation. Apology and reparation together constitute atonement. Atonement, in turn, imposes a reciprocal civic obligation on black Americans to forgive, which allows black Americans to start relinquishing racial resentment and to begin trusting the government's commitment to racial equality. Brooks's bold proposal situates the argument for reparations within a larger, international framework—namely, a post-Holocaust vision of government responsibility for genocide, slavery, apartheid, and similar acts of injustice. Atonement and Forgiveness makes a passionate, convincing case that only with this spirit of heightened morality, identity, egalitarianism, and restorative justice can genuine racial reconciliation take place in America.
Vengeance Road
Author: Erin Bowman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544466381
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers -- and justice. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate's quest for revenge may prove fatal.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544466381
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers -- and justice. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate's quest for revenge may prove fatal.
Ryan Rule: A Reverse Harem/ Dark Mafia Romance. New York Ruthless Book 1
Author: Sadie Kincaid
Publisher: Red House Press
ISBN: 9781838448394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Jessie Heaton is a fearless, flame-haired computer hacker. Independent and feisty, she's relied on no-one but herself since the age of sixteen. Working for the Russians, she is finally close to getting the one thing she wants most in life, when she's stopped in her tracks by the notorious Ryan brothers. The Ryans are Irish Mafia. They are unstoppable. No-one stands in their way. And nothing comes between a Ryan and his family. That is, until the hurricane that is Jessie, crashes into their lives. With a world full of secrets and a past that she can't outrun, will she be their salvation or their downfall? Ryan Rule is Book 1 in the New York Ruthless series. A Reverse Harem/ Dark Mafia Romance full of heat and suspense that will keep you turning the pages. Publishers Note: this book deals with mature themes.
Publisher: Red House Press
ISBN: 9781838448394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Jessie Heaton is a fearless, flame-haired computer hacker. Independent and feisty, she's relied on no-one but herself since the age of sixteen. Working for the Russians, she is finally close to getting the one thing she wants most in life, when she's stopped in her tracks by the notorious Ryan brothers. The Ryans are Irish Mafia. They are unstoppable. No-one stands in their way. And nothing comes between a Ryan and his family. That is, until the hurricane that is Jessie, crashes into their lives. With a world full of secrets and a past that she can't outrun, will she be their salvation or their downfall? Ryan Rule is Book 1 in the New York Ruthless series. A Reverse Harem/ Dark Mafia Romance full of heat and suspense that will keep you turning the pages. Publishers Note: this book deals with mature themes.
The Price of Retribution
Author: Christopher Cartwright
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
After the world’s most expensive diamond heist goes wrong, Jack Overton finds himself running from the man who had once been his master - England’s most powerful magistrate of the eighteenth century, Sir Robert Williams. With deep ties to one of the most violent Secret Societies in Europe, the honorable Sir Robert Williams will stop at nothing to catch him. There are few places in the western world that would harbor such a fugitive, and he finds himself headed for the one place that no one would bother to look: Great Britain’s newest penal colony – New South Wales. But surviving in the new harsh land is going to be hard for a thief whose only real skill is looking out for his own greedy desires. Particularly when he meets recently widowed convict Anna Harper, and finds that their lives and destinies are unwittingly entwined.
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
After the world’s most expensive diamond heist goes wrong, Jack Overton finds himself running from the man who had once been his master - England’s most powerful magistrate of the eighteenth century, Sir Robert Williams. With deep ties to one of the most violent Secret Societies in Europe, the honorable Sir Robert Williams will stop at nothing to catch him. There are few places in the western world that would harbor such a fugitive, and he finds himself headed for the one place that no one would bother to look: Great Britain’s newest penal colony – New South Wales. But surviving in the new harsh land is going to be hard for a thief whose only real skill is looking out for his own greedy desires. Particularly when he meets recently widowed convict Anna Harper, and finds that their lives and destinies are unwittingly entwined.