Critiquing the Black Commons as Reparations
This essay calls for reframing the narrative surrounding the economic harm that serves as the basis of reparations models to extend beyond the failure of Blacks to theoretically attain wealth to include the fact that individual Blacks have actually been dispossessed and should be made whole. In Part I the paper shows the pervasiveness of practices of Black land dispossession beginning prior to Emancipation. In Part II, the paper outlines modern reparations plans for land return in the form of community land trusts (CLT), a form of commons. Part II also attempts to theorize the Black Commons by mapping race onto the theory of the urban commons. Part III of the article reviews the literature on reparationist goals, including “community empowerment,” to determine whether the commons can be sufficiently utilized to achieve those aims. Part III suggests that Black people who have been dispossessed of their land through violence and systemic racism cannot be made whole merely ceremoniously and in group with the re-establishment of the Black Commons because doing so will leave them as no more than a “land holding peasantry.” This paper argues further that proposals advocating for reparations that fail to contemplate the return of equity-generating land to individuals further legitimize the legacy of economic violence against Black landowners. Instead, the paper suggests that advocates should pursue legislative strategies such as the Justice for Black Farmer’s Act, which was introduced in the Senate in 2020 and would establish the Equitable Land Access Service to acquire farmland and provide land grants to existing and aspiring Black farmers
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[2021]
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Authors: | Hayat, Norrinda |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Kritik | Criticism | Schwarze Menschen | Black people | Reparationen | Reparations |
Description of contents: | Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | In: New York University Review of Law & Social Change, 2021 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 23, 2021 erstellt Volltext nicht verfügbar |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230574
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