Format:
Online-Ressource (xx, 536 p)
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26 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0814713327
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0814713319
Series Statement:
Critical America
Content:
""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 instit
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"This anthology is a collection of essays, written by both internationally renowned and emerging scholars, and of public documents that concern claims from around the world which seek redress for human injustice"--Preface
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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When Sorry Isn't Enough; Contents; Preface; Part 1: Introduction; Chapter 1: The Age of Apology; Suggested Readings; Part 2: Nazi Persecution; Introduction; Chapter 2: A Reparations Success Story?; The Scope of Persecution; Chapter 3: The German Third Reich and Its Victims; Holocaust Narratives; Chapter 4: Memories of My Childhood in the Holocaust; Chapter 5: The Human "Guinea Pigs" of Ravensbrück; Chapter 6: Stranger in Exile; The National Security Defense; Chapter 7: Putative National Security Defense; German Reparations; Chapter 8: German Compensation for National Socialist Crimes
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Chapter 9: Romani Victims of the Holocaust and Swiss ComplicityChapter 10: German Reparations; Suggested Readings; Part 3: Comfort Women; Introduction; Chapter 11: What Form Redress?; The Comfort Women System; Chapter 12: The Jugun Ianfu System; Chapter 13: Comfort Women Narratives; Chapter 14: The Nanking Massacre; Chapter 15: Japan's Official Responses to Nanking; The Redress Movement; Chapter 16: The Comfort Women Redress Movement; Chapter 17: Japan's Official Responses to Reparations; A Legal Analysis of Reparations
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Chapter 18: Japan's Settlement of the Post-World War II Reparations and ClaimsChapter 19: Reparations; An American Response; Chapter 20: Lipinski Resolution; Suggested Readings; Part 4: Japanese Americans; Introduction; Chapter 21: Japanese American Redress and the American Political Process; The Internment Experience; Chapter 22:The Internment of Americans of Japanese Ancestry; Chapter 23: Executive Order 9066; Chapter 24: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians; Chapter 25: Japanese American Narratives; The Redress Movement
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Chapter 26: Relocation, Redress, and the ReportForms of Redress; Chapter 27: Redress Achieved, 1983-1990; Chapter 28: Institutions and Interest Groups; Chapter 29: Proclamation 4417; Chapter 30: Response to Criticisms of Monetary Redress; Chapter 31: Testimony of Representative Norman Y. Mineta; Chapter 32: German Americans, Italian Americans, and the Constitutionality of Reparations; Chapter 33: The Case of the Japanese Peruvians; Chapter 34: Letters from John J. McCloy and Karl R. Bendetsen; Suggested Readings; Part 5: Native Americans; Introduction; Chapter 35: Wild Redress?
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The Native American ExperienceChapter 36: Native American Reparations; Native American Narratives; Chapter 37: The Killing of Big Snake, a Ponca Chief, October 31, 1879; Chapter 38: The Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, December 29, 1890; Chapter 39: How the Indians Are Victimized by Government Agents and Soldiers; Chapter 40: Forced Removal of the Winnebago Indians, Nebraska, October 3, 1865; The Redress Movement: Land Claim Litigation; Chapter 41: Indian Claims for Reparations, Compensation, and Restitution in the United States Legal System
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The Redress Movement: Land Claim Legislation
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814713327
Additional Edition:
Print version When Sorry Isn't Enough : The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice
Language:
English
