RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Local Proposals for Black Reparations
JF RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
FD Russell Sage Foundation
SP 140
OP 161
DO 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.3.07
VO 10
IS 3
A1 Reneau, Olivia J.
YR 2024
UL http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/10/3/140.abstract
AB In this article, I document and analyze all municipal, state, and county-level efforts for Black reparations in the United States. Most efforts resemble H.R. 40’s exploratory commission model, possibly due to policy path dependency. Few geographies have allocated funding for committee recommendations, but some have allocated funds for committee activities. Only Evanston, Illinois, has allocated and distributed funds to qualifying residents. On average, cities with reparations efforts demonstrated mixed performance on metrics related to Black wealth, with insufficient evidence to suggest local Black-White disparities are more severe than the nation as a whole. Several proposals emphasize the Black-White racial wealth gap as emblematic of slavery-derived disparity, but no municipal or state proposal can rival the scale or potential of a federal program.