From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First CenturyWilliam A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-5497-3, published: April 2020; eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5498-0, published: March 2020
Winner of the 2021 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize and the 2020 Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association
William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these 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, Darity and Mullen assess the literal and figurative costs of justice denied in the 155 years since the end of the Civil War. The authors present a detailed roadmap for an effective reparations program, including a substantial payment to each documented U.S. black descendant of slavery.