Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans

Linda J. Bilmes; Cornell William Brooks

doi:10.7758/RSF.2024.10.2.02

Article Information

vol. 10 no. 2 30-68

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.2.02

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online June 3, 2024.

© 2024 Russell Sage Foundation. Bilmes, Linda J., and Cornell William Brooks. 2024. “Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(2): 30–68. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.2.02. Direct correspondence to: Linda Bilmes, at linda_bilmes@hks.harvard.edu, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States; Cornell William Brooks, at cornellwm_brooks@hks.harvard.edu, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Linda J. Bilmes^a and
Cornell William Brooks^b

^aThe Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer Chair in Public Policy and Public Finance and chair of the Senior Managers in Government Program at Harvard Kennedy School, United States
^bThe Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice at Harvard Kennedy School and visiting professor at the Harvard Divinity School, United States