From Here to Equality, Second Edition
Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Second Edition
By William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
with a new preface by the authors
448 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 1 halftone
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7120-8
Published: September 2022 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-7121-5
Published: July 2022 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-6410-9
Published: July 2022
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Awards & distinctions
2021 Lillian Smith Book Award
2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize
2020 Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association
2021 Best Book Awards in Social Change Category, American Book Fest
2023 Outstanding Book Award, Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, American Sociological Association
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.
About the Authors
William A. Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University.
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A. Kirsten Mullen is a writer, folklorist, museum consultant, and lecturer whose work focuses on race, art, history, and politics.
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Reviews
"Darity and Mullen challenge the United States to bear the moral weight of the legacies of slavery and deeply entrenched racism: to reject trifling, half-hearted measures and to approach—and perhaps even achieve—wholeness through reparations."—New York Review of Books
"Reparations are having a moment. . . . In From Here to Equality, William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen draw on both journalistic and scholarly sources to make a strong case for cash payments to Black descendants of slaves. . . . A rich historical account of how the economic inequalities between Black and white Americans were created and perpetuated through centuries of slavery and the legally enforced systems of discrimination and political disfranchisement that followed. . . . Darity and Mullen provide a detailed analysis of the deep disparities in wealth, income, education, and other measures of well-being that have persisted since emancipation."—The Nation
"Essential to any debate over the need for and way to achieve meaningful large-scale reparations."—Kirkus Reviews
"The national dialogue on reparations has gained strength from the work of Darity and Mullen. Certainly, From Here to Equality is the most comprehensive book today on the political economy of reparations."—American Journal of Economics and Sociology
“A searing testament to the conversations of US reparations for African American descendants of the enslaved. . . . From Here to Equality ultimately inspires a collective journey toward a more equitable future.”—Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
“[Darity and Mullen] offer a multi-faceted reparations program which is intended to remedy multiple aspects of the situation. . . . [W]hile the research and text are highly academic, the text is well-adapted to reading and comprehension by the general public.”–Anglican and Episcopal History
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