When Sorry Isn't Enough - The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice

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?

Summary

Why does the US 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? This collection of essays also includes the voices of the victims of these atrocities.

Product details

• Assisted by: Roy L Brooks (Editor), Roy L. Brooks (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780814713327
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-1332-7
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 253 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 984 g
• Series: Critical America; Critical America Series; Critical America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education