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Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction

William Darity, Jr., Thomas Craemer, Daina Ramey Berry, Dania V. Francis
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences June 2024, 10 (3) 1-28; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.3.01
William Darity Jr.
aSamuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy and African and African American Studies at Duke University
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Thomas Craemer
bAssociate professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut
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Daina Ramey Berry
CProfessor of history and Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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Dania V. Francis
dAssociate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
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William Darity, Thomas Craemer, Daina Ramey Berry, Dania V. Francis
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