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When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Critical America)
Peter Brooks (Ed.)
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Description for When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Critical America)
Paperback. A collection of essays from scholars, pundits, activists, and political leaders the world over. It provides a panoramic perspective on an international controversy often marked more by heat than reason. Editor(s): Brooks, Roy L. Series: Critical America Series. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 185 x 255 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1050.
How much compensation ought to be paid to a woman who was raped 7,500 times? What would the members of the Commission want for their daughters if their daughters had been raped even once? -Karen Parker, speaking before the U.N. Commission on Human Rights Seemingly every week, a new question arises relative to the current worldwide ferment over human injustices. Why does the U.S. offer $20,000 atonement money to Japanese Americans relocated to concentration camps during World War II, while not even apologizing to African Americans for 250 years of human bondage and another century of institutionalized discrimination? How can the U.S. and Canada best grapple with the genocidal campaigns against Native Americans on which their countries were founded? How should Japan make amends to Korean comfort women sexually enslaved during World War II? Why does South Africa deem it necessary to grant amnesty to whites who tortured and murdered blacks under apartheid? Is Germany's highly praised redress program, which has paid billions of dollars to Jews worldwide, a success, and, as such, an example for others? More generally, is compensation for a historical wrong dangerous blood money that allows a nation to wash its hands forever of its responsibility to those it has injured? A rich collection of essays from leading scholars, pundits, activists, and political leaders the world over, many written expressly for this volume, When Sorry Isn't Enough also includes the voices of the victims of some of the world's worst atrocities, thereby providing a panoramic perspective on an international controversy often marked more by heat than reason.
Product Details
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
Critical America Series
Condition
New
Weight
1050g
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814713327
SKU
V9780814713327
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About Peter Brooks (Ed.)
Roy L. Brooks is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and author, most recently, of Critical Procedure and Integration or Separation?: A Strategy for Racial Equality.
Reviews for When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (Critical America)
Not only provides a neat blend of scholarship, but it also focuses on a topic that is (or should be) of vital importance to human rights. -Human Rights Quarterly