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

Linda J. Bilmes, Cornell William Brooks
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2024, 10 (2) 30-68; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.2.02
Linda J. Bilmes
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
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Cornell William Brooks
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
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Linda J. Bilmes, Cornell William Brooks
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    • HARMS RELATED TO HOUSING
    • HARMS RELATED TO EDUCATION
    • HARMS RELATED TO WAGES, EMPLOYMENT, AND LABOR MARKETS
    • AUDIT OF GENERAL REPARATORY COMPENSATORY PROGRAMS
    • COMPENSATION RELATED TO EXPOSURE TO U.S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING
    • COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OF DEFERRED COMPENSATION
    • COMPENSATION FOR INDIAN LAND RIGHTS
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